The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Thursday, October 14, 2021

Vanitas 47


Sebastian Stoskopff, The Great Vanity (1641)

Note the poem written on the chalkboard, hanging from the left of the table:

Kunst, Reichtum, Macht und Kühnheit stirbet
Die Welt und all ihr Tun verdirbet
Ein Ewiges kommt nach dieser Zeit 
Ihr Toren, flieht die Eitelkeit. 

Art, Wealth, Power, and Audacity die,
The World and all its Doing perish,
Eternity arrives once this Time is over,
Fools that you are, flee from Vanity.



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