Showing posts with label Pieter Breughel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pieter Breughel. Show all posts

Saturday, January 04, 2014

Pieter Breguhel's The Flatterers

Via Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

The inscription around the frame reads “Because so much money passes through my purse, therefore I am always surrounded by flatterers 1592," (which may be a reference to a Flemish proverb).
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