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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

The Basel Dance of Death 1


Matthäus Merian, The Basel Dance of Death: The Ossuary (1616) 

"Oh Man, contemplate, and do not despise, 
Here this figure of all creatures. 
Death takes them, early and late, 
Just like the flower in the field fades." 



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