Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sermon of Saint John the Baptist, The Road to Calvary, and The Conversion of Saint Paul. Safe themes-but not as handled by Bruegel. He trundled the terrible urgency of the Bible, like a siege tower, straight up against contemporary walls. His Massacre, for instance, takes place in a Flemish village of his own day. Walloon redcoats butcher baby after baby on the shining snow. Mothers and fathers pray, scream, struggle and reach out in vain. Spain's notorious "Edict of Blood" is fulfilled before our eyes...
...Babel as an allegory of old Antwerp, but young Manhattan's towers might as well have been meant. Two Monkeys may be seen as just a humanist's sympathy for the misery of chained animals -or as a symbolist's protest against the plight of the Flemish provinces under the rule of Spain...