This region was home to an artist who signed many cabinet paintings with a pair of glasses, punning on his name.
This region was home to an artist who signed many cabinet paintings with a pair of glasses, punning on his name. A dog sniffs at some broken tiles and Balthazar, who was painted using one of the first black models in art, presents the infant Jesus with a gift, in The Adoration of the Kings, painted by another artist from this region. Yet another artist from this region included two men using waffles as ante in a dice game in a painting whose most prominent character is a man wearing a meat pie as a helmet, carrying a skewered suckling pig as a lance, and riding a (*) barrel as a horse. That artist from this region used the Roman Coliseum as the model for his painting of a monument to human arrogance, titled The Tower of Babel, and showed a farmer continuing to plow, unaware of a youth's plunge into the sea in his best-known painting. For 10 points, name this Northern European region whose Renaissance was headed by painters such as Jan Gossaert and Pieter Breughel the Elder.
This region was home to an artist who signed many cabinet paintings with a pair of glasses, punning on his name.
Flanders [or Flemish; or Southern Netherlands; prompt on Low Countries; prompt on Netherlands; prompt on Dutch Republic; prompt on Northern Europe; prompt on United Provinces; prompt on Belgium]