I remember a painting -- Renaissance-era, most likely either German or Dutch. It features a bunch of people in the town square, who are gathered around looking at something or someone presenting something. It's kind of famous -- I vaguely remember an MTV commercial/intertitle based on it. And I'm assuming that it's German b/c I remember it being in of my high school German text books.
Sorry that I can't be more specific, but I am working from memory. If anyone can place the name of the painter and/or the painting itself, I'd be most grateful!
― i have a history of enabling your mother. (Eisbaer), Saturday, 2 February 2013 18:07 (twelve years ago)
i'm also pretty sure that it is NOT Albrecht Dürer (I just wasted far too much time looking at Dürer paintings on GIS).
― i have a history of enabling your mother. (Eisbaer), Saturday, 2 February 2013 18:08 (twelve years ago)
?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anatomy_Lesson_of_Dr._Nicolaes_Tulp
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 2 February 2013 18:15 (twelve years ago)
Renaissance-era town square
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 2 February 2013 18:17 (twelve years ago)
haha i just discovered it ... it's Hieronymus Bosch's "The Magician"
http://www.adolphmenzel.org/upload1/file-admin/images/BOSCH,%20Hieronymus10.jpg
― i have a history of enabling your mother. (Eisbaer), Saturday, 2 February 2013 18:20 (twelve years ago)
aka "The Conjurer"
― i have a history of enabling your mother. (Eisbaer), Saturday, 2 February 2013 18:22 (twelve years ago)