<DIV>There is a similar painting by Breugel with over a hundred (if I remember well) Dutch sayings. It's in the Frans Hals museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands. The museum has made a schematic drawing of the painting and numbered all the different little scenes on the painting. An accompanying list informs the visitor which sayings are portrayed. </DIV>
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<DIV>Knowing this, I am sure that a similar list will be available for this painting with the children's games; no doubt someone has already looked into this and an article on the subject will already be available somewhere. </DIV>
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<DIV>Alexandra</DIV>
<DIV> <BR><BR><B><I>Greg Lindahl <lindahl@pbm.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; WIDTH: 100%">A friend of mine pointed out this image of one of Brugel's paintings:<BR><BR>http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/bruegel/bruegel_childrens_games.jpg.html<BR><BR>It would make a neat little article for someone to try to figure out<BR>what sorts of games are being shown. For example: rolling a hoop using<BR>a stick (bottom). Two people sitting on a barrel. Whip-tops (upper<BR>center under the porch). Leap-frog (center). Blind-man's bluff. There<BR>are a bunch of more complicated physical games, too. Adults are shown<BR>doing quite a few of them. Etc.<BR><BR>-- greg<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>hist-games mailing list<BR>hist-games@www.pbm.com<BR>http://www.pbm.com/mailman/listinfo/hist-games</BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr SIZE=1>
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