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The Egg Dance
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.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/43A(+71)
- http://iconclass.org/43C911
- http://iconclass.org/41A2
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/43A(+71)
- http://iconclass.org/43C911
- http://iconclass.org/41A2
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1552
- 1552
Place-Time
- third quarter 16th century
Places
- Antwerp
- Antwerpen
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.3700
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5757
- SK-A-3
Extent
- height 84 cm
- width 172 cm
- weight 20.5 kg
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1552
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:15:09.111Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:42.326Z