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Unknown17th C painting of a peasant couple preparing for Carnival.Flemish School.+
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Preparation for Carnival: a three day festival of insatiable eating, drinking and carousing that preceded the forty days of Lent, a period of penitence when the pious drank only water, ate little but fish, and abstained from all pleasure.But there was more to Carnival than meat and making merry: the season also represented a rare opportunity to overturn the social hierarchy and invert norms of behaviour. Often done under the cover of anonymity (hence the dressing up in the picture), this gave individuals a brief moment of freedom to indulge in chaotic displays of anarchic behaviour that temporarily undermined the sanctimony and prudishness of daily life through the rest of the year.
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- Dimensions:Height: 13.39 in (34 cm)Width: 8.94 in (22.7 cm)Depth: 0.12 in (3 mm)
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- Gallery Location:brussel, BE
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