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July 15, 2008
The dance-with-death allegory was originally a didactic play to remind people of the inevitability of death and to advise them strongly to be prepared all times for death (memento mori).
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Triumph of Death, circa 1562, oil on canvas
This panoramic landscape of death depicts people of different social backgrounds - from peasants and soldiers to nobles and even a king and a cardinal - being taken by death indiscriminately.
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Hyped as an understatment.