Pieter Bruegel

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Pieter Bruegel

• Netherlands

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Figure 23-20 PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER,
Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559. Oil on wood, 3 10
x 5 4 1/8. Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen,
Berlin.
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FoolsFrom an ox to an assopening the door with
his bottomignorant optimist fiddles in a pillory
( cage )
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Pillar represents the churchhypocrite-hugs and
bites the pillar
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Banging his head against a wall
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Big fish eats little fishman fishes behind the
net
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Blind leading the blind
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The cloak of deceit
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Too little too late
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Buffoon cheats at cards and poops on a
globeinside the tavern two fools lead each other
by the nose
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Armed to the teethman is being overcautious
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Monk throws robe into river ( throws in the towel
)An eel caught by the tail is only half caught
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Opportunist warms himself by burning his house
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Woman carries water and fire she cannot form an
opinionwoman binds a devil to a cushion-nagging
wife
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Spinning the yarn-women spreading evil gossip
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Man falls off two stools attempting to sit on both
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Monk mocks Christ
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Unwed couple living in sin
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Man swims against stream
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Optimistshooting pie in the sky
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Pig removing spigot-gluttony
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Waste not-pigs dont appreciate the roses
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Shearing the pigMuch ado and little wool, said
the fool, and shore the pig.
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Mean spirit resents even the sun shining on the
water
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Waste not, want notman throws money down the
drain
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Wisdom-the world turns on his thumbpoints at the
man lost in an upturned globe
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Confessing to the devil
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Figure 23-21 PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER, Hunters
in the Snow, 1565. Oil on wood, approx. 3 10
1/8 x 5 3 3/4. Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Vienna.
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LIMBOURG BROTHERS (POL, JEAN, HERMAN),Feburary,
from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry,
14131416. Ink on vellum, 8 7/8" X 5 3/8. Musée
Condé, Chantilly.
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Tower of Babel