

The Egg Dance
1552
At right, in this brothel, a young man does an egg dance to the music of a bagpiper. While dancing, he had to roll an egg within a chalk circle – without it breaking – and to cover it with a wooden bowl. This ‘pointless’ amusement, along with the dissolute behaviour of the other figures, served as a moral warning against debauchery.
- License:
- Courtesy of Rijksmuseum
- For more:
- https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-3
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