Keep Your Mouth Shut - The Phoebus Foundation
Keep Your Mouth Shut book cover featuring a grotesque figure with a rooster on his head, work by Quentin Massys and Northern Renaissance imagery, Phoebus Focus publication.

Hannibal Books 2020 XI

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Keep Your Mouth Shut (‘Mondeken toe’) shows that the boundary between paintings and texts is wafer-thin and that the highest wisdom is sometimes a foolish game. As a connoisseur of Massijs, Bosch and the unique imagery of the Northern Renaissance, Larry Silver dissects all the motifs of the painting. The result is a special analysis of a curious scene, which even after five centuries turns out to be gripped from life.