Hanging at the Gemaldegalerie art museum in Berlin, Germany, is an unusual painting.
Many of the proverbs featured focus on the absurdity of human behavior.
Other more serious ones illustrate the dangers of folly, which leads to sin.
Eight years later, he had expanded the collection to more than three thousand proverbs.
Erasmus' collection of proverbs remains one of the most monumental ever assembled.
Netherlandish Proverbswasnt Bruegel’s first and only painting on the subject of proverbs.
The man biting into the wooden pillar is a hypocrite.
The man whos filling a pond after his calf drowned is one who takes action after a disaster.
The person who spills his porridge, will never be able to spoon it all back into the bowl.
The two men defecating out of the same hole indicates they are inseparable companions.
