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With Koen Fillet and art historian Dr Wendy Wauters.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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The Phoebus Foundation\u2019s collection includes an unusual painting which has an equally unusual title:\u00a0Head-Baker<\/em>. A baker\u2019s servant, frozen in motion, with his cleaver raised high in the air, is poised to decapitate the man sitting in front of him with a well-aimed swing. The mysterious title combined with the strange scene raises many questions. Was there really a baker running around decapitating his customers? Is the man administering a humiliating punishment, carrying out an early form of plastic surgery, or is something else going on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With Koen Fillet and art historian Dr Wendy Wauters. The Phoebus Foundation\u2019s collection includes an unusual painting which has an equally unusual title:\u00a0Head-Baker. A baker\u2019s servant, frozen in motion, with his cleaver raised high in the air, is poised to decapitate the man sitting in front of him with a well-aimed swing. The mysterious title combined with the strange scene raises many questions. Was there really a baker running around decapitating his customers? Is the man administering a humiliating punishment, carrying out an early form of plastic surgery, or is something else going on? Want to know more? 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