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A 16th-century painting was sold for a single glass of wine

In 1964, the artist Pieter Bruegel the Younger's landscape painting, "Landscape with Ruins," was sold to a collector for a staggering 16,000 liters of beer and 1,000 liters of wine. However, the most remarkable part of the story is that the wine portion of the sale was actually traded separately, and it's recorded that the painting was sold for a single glass of wine, worth approximately 1 liter. The sale was a testament to the artist's enduring popularity, despite the fact that Bruegel the Younger's work was largely overshadowed by his more famous father's.