“Feast of the Bean King” by Flemish painter Jacob Jordaens shows a debauched celebration of the Epiphany, with the inscription “nil similusinsano quam ebrius” — “nothing is more like a madman than a drunk.” Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

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