The Adoration of the Kings in the Snow
Date: 1567 ; Brussels , Belgium in terms of modern geography
Art Form: Painting
Dimensions: 35 X 55 cm (13.78 X 21.65 in)
Bruegel has shifted the Adoration from the centre to the left-hand edge of the picture, depicting it rather indistinctly behind a curtain of snow. The work is characterized not by the religious motif but by a natural event and the life of the people in a village in wintertime. It is possible that we have here the first painting in the history of European art to depict falling snow.
