Allegory of the World  

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Allegory of the World [1] (1515) is the title of an anonymous Flemish painting located in Museum Waterburcht Anhalt Isselburg.

The work, attributed to the school of Joachim Patinir comes from the collection of the prince of Salm-Salm and was first exhibited at the Meisterwerke westdeutscher Malerei in Düsseldorf in 1904.

On a globe of glass, the artist has painted the joys and miseries of the world, with its gallows and torture wheels. The rocky and fantastic landscape is indeed reminiscent of the painter of Patinir. Through an opening on the left, a young man with a long stick tries to enter. A Flemish inscription tells us that he would cross the world without bending:

« Met recht soudic gerne doer de Werelt commen. »
« Upright I would like to traverse the world. »

We see him coming out on the other side, middle aged and laughing, holding his long crooked stick. He has recognized the need to bend.

« ic bender doer maar ic moet crommen. »
« I traversed it but I had to bend. »

References

Le genre satirique dans la peinture flamande[2]

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