Children's Games by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1560
Kunsthistorisches Museum · wikidata.org
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Historians have reportedly counted somewhere close to ninety separate games hidden in this one board - tug of war, leapfrog, hoop-rolling, plus a few nobody's been able to name for sure.
Erisava: There's too much happening for one painting - like a hundred stories weaved together.
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I can name maybe five of these games. The other eighty-five feel like a language nobody speaks anymore.