Pieter Brueghel - The Battle between Carnival and Lent (1559)
“Bruegel collected about a hundred Netherlandish proverbs in 1559, and in this picture showed many being acted out en masse, thus producing a kind of satirical ballet on the subject of humanity’s infinite capacity to demean and defraud themselves.”
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