The Festival, after 1520, Daniel Hopfer, German, c. 1470-1536, 9 5/8 x 19 3/16 in. ( x cm) (plate) (overall), Etching on iron, two sheets, Germany, 16th century, Early printmakers never tired of depicting peasant shenanigans. In the sixteenth century peasants were seen by some as emblems of native German culture, while others, like Martin Luther, worried they would disrupt the social order. Across the two halves of The Festival, separated down the middle by a tree, peasants engage in the excesses that so fascinated the staid middle class

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