1904

15 games in a painting by Brueghel in which we know the childhood

Dutch painter Pieter Bruegel (senior) painted a picture of "Children's Games" and depicted her street, strewn with children. The children in her play blind man's buff, hide and seek, climb fences and trees. This picture - a kind of encyclopedia of children's entertainment: all it depicts more than a hundred fun. The picture was painted in 1560, which means that these games for over 500 years.

The picture can be viewed Bruegel indefinitely, but Website out of it 15 pieces and offers a look at the children's pranks with five centuries of history. Perhaps among them you will find familiar.

1. The game of the wedding. Often these wedding played up to the summer solstice.

2. Osedlanie fence.

3. Knight pulling on the belt at the tournament "horses».

4. Leapfrog

5. On the left - a game of spinning round and round skirt. Right at the top - a game with balls "Bocce". Bottom right - the game "Who to choose?": She chooses her "baby" of the group of friends under a blanket

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6. In the foreground - the game in a simple wrap and wrap with bells. Above -. Shouting into a barrel

7. Throwing hats playing through the legs.

8. The game "Above feet off the ground».

9. "Snake».

10. Riding on the barrel.

11. In the center - "Skate". Right -. Play the flute and drum

12. Dead Man's Bluff.

13. Left - knights fighting with turntables. Right -. Game mallet

14. On the left - the competition for raising each other. Right - exercises on the "goat". Top - balancing a stick on the finger

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15. On the left - a tape on a stick, which "plays" in the wind. Right -. "Cableway" from baskets

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