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21-OCT-2014 Chris Brooker

The Egg Dance, 1552

Pieter Aertsen, c 1508-1575

Oil on panel

On the 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. Rijksmuseum


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Kent Dellaire25-Apr-2023 17:36
I don't believe this is a brothel.