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The Procession to Calvary by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (public domain)
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For a period in northern Renaissance art, painters liked to zoom out from the Passion story to create a vast tableau. They painted ambitious, dramatic landscapes with swirling crowds of all types of people, in which the figure of Jesus is central but small.
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