The Fight Between Carnival and Lent is an oil-on-panel painting executed by the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1559. It is a panorama of contemporary life in the Southern Netherlands. While the painting contains nearly 200 characters, it is unified under the theme of the transition from Shrove Tuesday to Lent, the period forty days before Easter. Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1559 — painted at 34. Panel and oil paint. 118 × 164.5 cm. In the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Wiki link