Pieter Aertsen

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The Egg Dance
The Egg Dance
by Pieter Aertsen
Northern Renaissance · 1552
In a crowded tavern, a young man dances around an egg without breaking it — a Flemish game with obvious symbolism. Pieter Aertsen paints peasant life as crowded, alive, and morally ambiguous.