I loved studying the Dutch and Flemish painters. Pieter Bruegel the Elder has always been a favorite. #Repost @todayisartday with @repostapp.・・・"Netherlandish Proverbs" in an oil-on-oak-panel painting by Flemish painter #PieterBruegeltheElder. It is a literal illustration of Dutch language proverbs and idioms.There are at least 112 identifiable proverbs and idioms in the scene. For example, the man wearing a red shirt in the window above the blue sphere on the left depicts the idiom "to crap on the world" meaning to despise everything.#BruegeltheElder died on this day, 9 September 1569. "Netherlandish Proverbs" is on view at Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Germany.#todayisartday #art #artist #painting #artwork #arthistory #fineart #artoftheday #artpic #dailyart #bruegeltheelder #gemaldegalerie