Pieter Aertsen, 1552 - The Egg Dance - fine art print

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What does the curator team of the Rijksmuseum write about the work of art made by Pieter Aertsen? (© Copyright - Rijksmuseum - Rijksmuseum)

At right, in this brothel, a young man does an egg dance to the music of a bagpiper. While dancing, he had to roll an egg within a chalk circle – without it breaking – and to cover it with a wooden bowl. This ‘pointless’ amusement, along with the dissolute behaviour of the other figures, served as a moral warning against debauchery.

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The classic art piece of art was painted by the northern renaissance painter Pieter Aertsen. Furthermore, the work of art belongs to the Rijksmuseum's digital art collection in Amsterdam, Netherlands. With courtesy of - Rijksmuseum (public domain).In addition to that, the work of art has the following creditline: . In addition to this, the alignment is in landscape format with a ratio of 2 : 1, which implies that the length is two times longer than the width. Pieter Aertsen was a male painter, whose style was primarily Northern Renaissance. The artist lived for a total of 68 years, born in the year 1507 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands and died in the year 1575.

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