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| Keywords: Haywain-gillis-mostaert-after-bosch-vanité-du-monde-16th.jpg Gillis Mostaert or his workshop It is based on The Haywain by Hieronymus Bosch It depicts all mankind from the Pope and Emperor on down to peasants and cripples being obsessed with straw a metaphor for worthless pursuits The design satirizes the form of a triumphal procession with the hay wagon in place of a triumphal chariot Various sins violence and personified Death are also shown The scene appears within a larger motif a circular design with a cross This represents the globus cruciger cross-bearing orb a Christian symbol of the world The painting is held by the Louvre https //www flickr com/photos/gandalfsgallery/10489129433/ Creator Gillis Mostaert Second half of 16th century PD-old-100 PD-1996 <gallery>File Workshop of Gillis Mostaert I 001 jpg Smaller Version</gallery> Gillis Mostaert Flemish paintings in the Louvre 16th-century allegorical paintings Chariots in paintings Paintings after Hieronymus Bosch Hay Wagon Hay wagons in art 16th-century paintings of angels with humans 16th-century paintings in the Louvre Allegories of death Vanitas | ||||
