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The
historical rooms of 't Vliegend Peert also contain a museum, built
around a permanent collection of paintings from the sixteenth century,
on the basis of a long term loan. The name of the museum,
Het Zotte Kunstkabinet (The Foolish Art Collection), refers to the
specific theme of the paintings, satirical-moralising, in the 16th
century also referred to as Sot (Foolisch).
Hieronymus Bosch was one of the first to draw inspiration from an
imagery that would provide a few generations of artists such as
Bruegel and Brouwer with metaphors to depict reprehensible
behaviour. |