wedding dance wedding dance known dance village oil panel painting flemish artist elder owned museum detroit michigan work discovered director england brought detroit believed set works time wedding dance painting depicts wedding guests customary renaissance period wore black men wore depicted entire art work dancing time authorities church painting seen critique comic depiction stereotypical peasant class times background completed wedding dance believed lost years discovered sale london director time paid wedding dance city appropriation owned museum share wedding theme elements painted period later years considered trilogy works paintings playing pride example man seated player wearing feather hat author described trilogy works superb examples paintings states genre paintings stands marked contrast painters day followed wedding dance celebrations painted art historian views paintings sermon condemning church abandoned christ description themes popular painting shows group wedding guests wearing clothing times presented canvas apparently chaotic way outdoor party surrounded trees wore black renaissance period men wore important clothing time people engaged intimate shown entire work people guest positioning painting meaning foreground dancer wearing colours time period peasants area middle bride dancing older man father right work musician playing watching dance judging writing hanging belt writer possibly middle class painter hanging decorated crown beneath bride table table money collectors seen digging trenches wedding guests sit eat movements people behaviour inappropriate caricature representation fertility reproduction presented joyful manner painting reflects degree ambiguity seen attack stereotypical behaviour lower orders comical picture sixteenth century painted dance subject strict code regarded authorities church social evil people swing arms legs laugh loud considered type people painting expresses peasants liberation limits upper classes failing adhere expected social standards times author theme music northern renaissance banquet scenes said painting series seven deadly sins virtues paintings moral says dancing appear natural peasants poses threat human soul dancing wild undoubtedly derives moral dancing held religious civil alike contrary described hard drinking hard living flemish pleasant packed years life furious painting regarded sheer joy indicates despite having moral compass aware expected standards imposed church state time likely enjoyed similar festivities life
The Wedding Dance