The Egg Dance
The Egg Dance, by Pieter Aertsen, 1552, Dutch painting, oil on panel. In a brothel, a young man, while dancing, rolled an egg within a chalk circle ? without it breaking ? and then covered it with a wooden bowl. A bagpiper provides music (BSLOC_2016_3_166)
Picture No
11110463
Media ID
45269480
Size
3000px x 1459px
(1.3MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Everett Collection
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1550s 1604 Aertsen Bagpipes Brothels Burgundian Cellar Customers Drinker Foolishness Genre Informal Mannerism Mannerist Meals Netherlandish Partying Pieter Prostitution Revelry
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