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Description: | This is one of a group of four Flemish paintings thought to be by the same artist. Set in the gardens of an Italianate palazzo, the view opens to a mountainous coastline on the left. Similarly detailed to the other paintings, the composition is animated by a number of figures, animals and birds, often with humorous effect. In the gardens courting couples make exaggerated gestures of love and a monkey sitting by the fountain acts as an analogy for foolishness. On the road some elderly priests are caricatured as hunchbacks, one of them sitting precariously on a reluctant mule. | Subjects: | landscape; everyday life; buildings and gardens; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Caullery, Louis de (Flemish painter, before 1582-after 1621) Æ Attributed to circle of Attributed to circle of Toeput, Lodewijk (Flemish painter and printmaker, ca. 1550-ca. 1605, active in Italy) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8876... | Go to resource |
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