Landscape with the Conversion of St PaulPaul Bril

This oil painting (c. 1600) shows St Paul and his companions thrown from their horses on a rocky road, framed by steep cliffs, bridges, and distant buildings under a turbulent sky. The subject comes from the biblical account of Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus. The strong contrast between dark terrain and concentrated light demonstrates how Counter-Reformation art used landscape to articulate divine intervention in human history.