If you search through the art history archives for hidden gags, visual puns, and absurd characters, it will become clear—no one does it like the Dutch. In fact, 25 joke books were written in the ...
Isaak Koedijk's "The Barber Surgeon," painted in 1649-1650, is one of numerous paintings on display at the San Diego Museum of Art as part of the "Dutch Painting: Special Loans from the Museum of Fine ...