Tuesday, February 16, 2010

A Visual Meditation for Shrove Tuesday: Pieter Bruegel's Fight Between Carnival and Lent



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The more portly personification of Carnival seated on a cask of drink with meat and surrounded by games and revelry to left; on the right, the more emaciated personification of Lent, with fish, bread and pretzels

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