The Wedding Dance

The Wedding Dance (sometimes known as The Village Dance) is a 1566 oil-on-panel painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Owned by the museum of the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan, the work was discovered by its director in England in 1930, and brought to Detroit. It is believed to be one of a set of three Bruegel works from around the same time: The Wedding Dance, The Peasant Wedding (1567) and The Peasant Dance (1569).

The painting depicts 125 wedding guests. As was customary in the Renaissance period, the brides wore black and men wore codpieces. Voyeurism is depicted throughout the entire art work; dancing was disapproved of by the authorities and the church, and the painting can be seen as both a critique and comic depiction of a stereotypical oversexed, overindulgent, peasant class of the times. Scholars have variously interpreted it …

摘自英文维基百科「The Wedding Dance」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。