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The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1559
The whole square is apparently one big argument — the feast season on one side, the fasting season on the other, the inn and the church facing off across the middle. Nearly two hundred people in there, from what I've read, and supposedly almost every one of them is doing something you could put a name to, if you knew the customs.
Self-Portrait with Masks by James Ensor, 1937
His family ran a souvenir shop in a seaside town, selling carnival masks in among the shells and knick-knacks, and the masks kept turning up in his paintings for the rest of his life. This is a late one — supposedly he'd already painted himself in a crowd of them decades before.