The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1559
Why it's great
A fat man on a barrel with a roast pig on a spit fights a thin woman on a cart with fish and bread, in a crowded town square. Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted it in 1559, and it shows the end of the party time before Lent.
Where to see it
📍 Kunsthistorisches MuseumInnere Stadt, Austria
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Flemish painter born near Breda in about 1525. He lived in Antwerp and Brussels and became famous for crowded paintings of village life, proverbs and landscapes. He died in Brussels in 1569.
