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Netherlandish Proverbs (Dutch: Nederlandse Spreekwoorden; also called Flemish Proverbs, The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil -on-oak- panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of Dutch-language proverbs and idioms.
Adagia (singular adagium) is the title of an annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs, compiled during the Renaissance by Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus. Erasmus' repository [1]: 102 of proverbs is "one of the most monumental ... ever assembled" (Speroni, 1964, p. 1). The first edition, titled Collectanea Adagiorum, was ...
Every dog has his day [a] Every Jack has his Jill [a] Every little bit helps [a] Every man for himself (and the Devil take the hindmost) [a] Every man has his price [a] Every picture tells a story [a] Every stick has two ends [a] Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die [a] Everyone has their price.
The Basisbibliotheek (Basic Library of Dutch Literature) comprises a list of 1000 works of Dutch Literature important to the cultural heritage of the Low Countries, and is published on the Digital library for Dutch literature (DBNL). Several of these works are lists themselves; such as early dictionaries, lists of songs, recipes, biographies or ...
Some German and Dutch proverbs date from the Sachsenspiegel: German: "Wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst" Dutch: "Wie het eerst komt, (die) het eerst maalt" (First come, first served, literally: "Who comes first, grinds first"), which is a rule for the order for grinding of corn by a miller and still is being used as a rule of habit at for instance ...
The Blue Cloak. The Blue Cloak, or De Blauwe Huik, refers to an old concept for a popular 16th-century print series featuring Flemish proverbs. The prints were generally captioned according to each depicted proverb, and central to these was a woman pulling a cloak over a man. That proverb is also central to a 1559 painting called Netherlandish ...
Original – Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Netherlandish Proverbs, illustrating 100 Dutch idioms and proverbs common in mid-16th century Netherlands. Reason High resolution, striking, immense EV, used throughout the encyclopedia. Articles in which this image appears Netherlandish Proverbs, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and 6 more. FP category for this ...
However, both Dutch Low Saxon and Limburgish spread across the Dutch-German border and belong to a common Dutch-Low German dialect continuum. There is a tradition of learning foreign languages in the Netherlands: about 89% of the total population have a good knowledge of English , 70% of German , 29% of French and 5% of Spanish .