Costumbres populares; diversión; fiesta; holanda; frijol; bollo; horneado; Kuntsthistoriches; siglo XVII; Jordaens - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 15:36:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Costumbres populares; diversión; fiesta; holanda; frijol; bollo; horneado; Kuntsthistoriches; siglo XVII; Jordaens - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The King Bean Festival https://historylab.es/the-king-bean-festival/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-king-bean-festival Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:53 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/el-festival-del-rey-frijol/ Representation of the popular Flemish custom of the Epiphany

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]]> Jordaens’s painting depicts the popular Flemish custom of the Epiphany: whoever found the baked bean in the cake shared by the guests became the king of the feast and chose the most beautiful woman to be his queen. The rest of the companions take charge of the court offices. The Latin inscription, translated, means “no one is as foolish as the drunkard”, giving the painting a moralising tone. Jordaens’s work was influenced by Rubens, Caravaggio and Dutch painting and he developed his own characteristic style.

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