Some are cracked, some are fried, some are just hanging around: Eggs in art from Piero della Francesca to Banksy.

(photo: Teatro Muséo Dalí, Alberto-g-rovi)

1. Piero della Francesca, Brera Madonna, 1472-74

2. Leonardo da Vinci, Leda and the Swan, 1505-10

3. Hieronymus Bosch, Concert in the Egg, c. 1561

4. Bachiacca, Leda and the Swan, 16th century

5. Georg Flegel, Snack with fried eggs, c. 1600

6. Diego Velázquez, An old woman cooking eggs, 1618

7. Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Bread and Eggs, 1865

8. Salvador Dalí, Teatro Museo Dalí in Figueres/Spain, 1974

9. Andy Goldsworthy, Stone Egg near Penpont, c. 2000

10. Henk Hofstra, “Art Eggcident” in Leeuwarden/Netherlands, 2008

Yes – there are plenty more eggs in art: Réne Magritte, Claes Oldenburg, Jeff Koons, Constantin Brancusi, Anish Kapoor, Banksy…

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