Patience, Pieter van der Heyden, after Pieter Bruegel (I), 1557 print The personification of patience is in the middle of a landscape on a stone with a cross in your hands. There are different samples around her. On the right a dead hollow tree, in which samples dance and on which a nar and a woman are sitting. There are various samples in the river. On the other side of the river a monster consisting of an egg cup with head, arms and legs. A man emerges from the broken cap, from whose back a dead tree grows. Under the performance an explanatory text in Latin. Antwerp paper engraving Patience;


Patience, Pieter van der Heyden, after Pieter Bruegel (I), 1557 print The personification of patience is in the middle of a landscape on a stone with a cross in your hands. There are different samples around her. On the right a dead hollow tree, in which samples dance and on which a nar and a woman are sitting. There are various samples in the river. On the other side of the river a monster consisting of an egg cup with head, arms and legs. A man emerges from the broken cap, from whose back a dead tree grows. Under the performance an explanatory text in Latin. Antwerp paper engraving Patience; 'Patienza' (Ripa). devils in the form of (fabulous) animals. buffoon (in general) (German: 'Schalksnarr')


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