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From the collection of Catholic University of Leuven
Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Dutch proverbs Detail: One must bend, if one is to get through the world is a 1559 unspecified by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, a Northern Renaissance work, held at Catholic University of Leuven.
This painting shows a village where everyone does something strange. A man bends over to crawl through a doorway. Another balances a Bible on his rear end. Brueghel packed the scene with over 100 proverbs. The title in Latin says "The world is a haystack, and we are all striving to get the best straw out of it." This feels like a cousin to Bosch’s crowded hells. Look up Pieter Brueghel I.
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder ( BROY-gəl, US also BROO-gəl; Dutch: ; c.
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