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Little Ice Age was caused by volcanism

Some of the iconic winter landscapes by Pieter Breughel the Elder rank not only as fine examples of 16th century Dutch art. Paintings such as Breughel’s Hunters in the Snow (1565) also serve as vivid evidence for the so-called Little Ice Age, a period of cold climate conditions and glacier advances in Europe and elsewhere that lasted from the late Middle Ages until the 19th century. 

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