The Old Masters of Comedy: See the Hidden Jokes in 5 Dutch Artworks
If you're looking for a laugh, there's nowhere quite like the Dutch Golden Age for hidden jokes, euphemisms, and surrealist comedy.
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If you're looking for a laugh, there's nowhere quite like the Dutch Golden Age for hidden jokes, euphemisms, and surrealist comedy.
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Hidden image puzzles aren't a recent invention. In 1559, a Dutch artist named Pieter Bruegel the Elder produced an oil painting featuring visualizations of over 100 common proverbs—and trying to spot them all is just as entertaining today as it was 450 years ago. The painting, titled Netherlandish Proverbs, depicts a busy scene of villagers engaged in unusual activities. Some details are baffling at first glance, but they each reflect a different idiom taken from the Dutch language. The roof scattered with what looks like pies, for instance, is an interpretation of to have the roof tiled ...