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Brueghel’s works had motifs and aspirations of which religious movement?

  • Catholic Counter-Reformation

  • Protestant Reformation

  • Orthodox Christianity

  • Judaism

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Peter Bruegel the Elder was a Flemish painter known for his vivid and detailed depictions of peasant life, landscapes, and religious subjects. His works often have motifs and aspirations of the Catholic Counter-Reformation, which was a movement within the Catholic Church that sought to reform the Church and to counter the Protestant Reformation.
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