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Allegory of the Earth is a series of paintings by Jan Brueghel the Elder produced c. 1610. One painting from the series is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice and another is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

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One of these paintings was stolen with 4 other paintings in 2007, before being found in Marseilles in 2008.

It is highlighted during the illuminations of the Place des Terreaux during the Festival of Lights in 2014.

References

1. Erlanger, Steven; Padis, Marc-Olivier; De La Baume, Maïa; Audi, Nadim (2010). "L'idéologie de l'air du temps". Esprit. Mars/avril (3): 54. doi:10.3917/espri.1003.0054. ISSN 0014-0759.
2. Hill, Charles (2016), "Trying to Recover Two Francesco Guardi Capricci Stolen from Russborough, County Wicklow, in 1986", Art Crime, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 95–104, doi:10.1007/978-1-137-40757-3_8, ISBN 978-1-349-55370-9, retrieved 2022-03-31

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