Hanging at the Gemäldegalerie Art Museum in Berlin, Germany, is an unusual painting. Measuring 64 inches by 46 inches, this oil-on-oak-panel painting from the 1500s has an unusual subject. The crowd of people are all doing frankly weird things: two men are defecating out of a window, a man is biting into a wooden pillar, another man is banging his head against a wall, a man is burying a calf, a man is attempting to scoop up spilled porridge, and a woman is tying into a bundle what appears to be the devil.
This odd artwork was made by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, who was one of the most significant Dutch artist of the Renaissance. Titled “Netherlandish Proverbs,” the painting is actually a literal illustration of more than one hundred Dutch language proverbs and idioms.
Man I would love to see what each of the proverbs is and what their depiction is because yeah I have no idea. I love Pieter Bruegel.
Ask and ye shall receive. Wikipedia has a list of the proverbs, their meanings, and images of Bruegel’s illustrations of each proverb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlandish_Proverbs#Proverbs_and_idioms
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