Jan Brueghel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, The Earthly Paradise with the Fall of Adam and Eve, c. 1615
This painting is by two famous Flemish masters: Rubens and Brueghel. They made more paintings of this kind, which were meant to be spectacle pieces bringing together the best of both.
Brueghel was responsible for the composition, but Rubens started painting. Very sketchy and with thin paint, he painted Adam and Eve, the tree, the horse and the snake. Brueghel then took charge of the plants and animals, which he painted with encyclopaedic precision in opaque paint.
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