Netherlandish Proverbs

Netherlandish Proverbs (Nederlandse Spreekwoorden; also called Flemish Proverbs, The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of Dutch-language proverbs and idioms. ^[1]

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1559 paintings
Paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Adagia

Adagia (singular adagium) is the title of an annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs, compiled during the Renaissance by Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus.

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Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE.

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Alea iacta est

Alea iacta est ("The die is cast") is a variation of a Latin phrase (iacta alea est) attributed by Suetonius to Julius Caesar on 10January 49 BCE, as he led his army across the Rubicon river in Northern Italy.

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Belling the Cat

Belling the Cat is a fable also known under the titles The Bell and the Cat and The Mice in Council.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Book of hours

Books of hours (horae) are Christian prayer books, which were used to pray the canonical hours.

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Cuckold

A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife; the wife of an adulterous husband is a cuckquean.

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Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin.

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Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus; 28 October c.1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.

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Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes are an American indie folk band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 2006.

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Fleet Foxes (album)

Fleet Foxes is the debut studio album by American band Fleet Foxes, released on June 3, 2008, by Sub Pop and Bella Union.

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François Rabelais

François Rabelais (born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author.

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Frans Hogenberg

Frans Hogenberg (1535–1590) was a Flemish and German painter, engraver, and mapmaker.

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Gargantua and Pantagruel

The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Les Cinq livres des faits et dits de Gargantua et Pantagruel), often shortened to Gargantua and Pantagruel or the Cinq Livres (Five Books), is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais.

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Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

The (Painting Gallery) is an art museum in Berlin, Germany, and the museum where the main selection of paintings belonging to the Berlin State Museums (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) is displayed.

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Joannes van Doetecum the Elder

Joannes van Doetecum the Elder (1530 – 1605) was a Dutch engraver-cartographer known for his etched works after genre scenes by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and maps of various cities in the Netherlands.

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List of paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The following is a list of paintings by the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Netherlandish Proverbs and list of paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder are paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Oil painting

Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder.

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Panel painting

A panel painting is a painting made on a flat panel of wood, either a single piece or a number of pieces joined together.

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (– 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings.

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Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Pieter Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Younger (between 23 May and 10 October 1564 – 1637/38) was a Flemish painter known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Bruegel the Elder's work, as well as original compositions and Bruegelian pastiches.

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Proverbidioms

Proverbidioms is a 1975 oil painting by American artist T. E. Breitenbach depicting over 300 common proverbs, catchphrases, and clichés such as "You are what you eat", "a frog in the throat", and "kicked the bucket". Netherlandish Proverbs and Proverbidioms are proverbs.

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Renaissance humanism

Renaissance humanism was a worldview centered on the nature and importance of humanity that emerged from the study of Classical antiquity.

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Smarthistory

Smarthistory is a free resource for the study of art history created by art historians Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

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T. E. Breitenbach

Thomas E. Breitenbach (born July 29, 1951 in Queens, New York) is a self-taught American artist best known for his painting Proverbidioms, a raucous and comical depiction of over 300 common proverbs and clichés.

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The Blue Cloak

The Blue Cloak, or De Blauwe Huik, refers to an old concept for a popular 16th-century print series featuring Flemish proverbs. Netherlandish Proverbs and The Blue Cloak are proverbs.

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The Fox and the Stork

The Fox and the Stork, also known as The Fox and the Crane, is one of Aesop's fables and is first recorded in the collection of Phaedrus.

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The Land of Cockaigne (Bruegel)

Het Luilekkerland (Dutch, "Cockaigne", literally "The Lazy-Tasty Land") — known in English as The Land of Cockaigne — is a 1567 oil painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569). Netherlandish Proverbs and the Land of Cockaigne (Bruegel) are paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

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Theodoor Galle

Dirck or Theodoor Galle (16 July 1571 – 18 December 1633) was a Flemish Baroque engraver.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlandish_Proverbs

Also known as Flemish Proverbs, Nederlandse Spreekwoorden, The Flemish Proverbs, The Topsy-Turvy World, Topsy Turvy World, Topsy-Turvy World.

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