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This 17th-Century Flemish Painting Held A Gnarly Bat Secret - Defector

By Sabrina Imbler

This 17th-Century Flemish Painting Held A Gnarly Bat Secret - Defector

To Jan Brueghel the Elder, paradise could not be contained to a single biome. Many of Brueghel’s paintings teem with menageries of birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish that would never ordinarily meet in the wild: monkeys from the Americas mingling with birds f…

To Jan Brueghel the Elder, paradise could not be contained to a single biome. Many of Brueghel's paintings teem with menageries of birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish that would never ordinarily meet … [+8598 chars]

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