Allegory on Student Life
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Top left, under the word 'Tea', figures seated in a circle drink tea. Only one figure has a head, the others do not. Center top, a fire fight in the forest. Below it, the word: 'Herbs'. Top right, wooden writing puppets before an easel. Above it, the word 'Ink'. In the center, Chronos with the word 'Varia'. Below it, a figure at the breakfast table with the words 'before noon'. Left of center, the word 'soup'. A man pours soup into a colander under which a group of figures catches it. To the right, a man and woman in a room with the words: 'The danger of having a medicine in the room'. Right, a fantastic and repeating figure before a carriage with the words: 'an effect of perspective'. Center bottom, a black sky with the words: 'night before the exam'. Bottom left, a policeman and a student who drunkenly wake their parents, startling them.
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