• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 days ago

        You mean like the Tulip Mania of the 1600s?

        I hope it’ll lead to similar art too 😁

        A Satire of Tulip Mania by Jan Brueghel the Younger (c. 1640) depicts speculators as brainless monkeys in contemporary upper-class dress. In a commentary on the economic folly, one monkey urinates on the previously valuable plants, others appear in debtor’s court and one is carried to the grave.