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Battle Between Carnival and Lent is an oil painting by Dutch artist Jan Miense Molenaer located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art which is in Indianapolis Indiana. Painted roughly 1633-1634 it depicts a brawl between rowdy peasants representing Carnival and a group of monks representing Lent. The rowdy combatants are armed with comical implements representing their sides such as a peasant with a beer tankard battling a monk armed with fish.
