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The Triumph of Death
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The Triumph of Death is an oil panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted c. 1562. It has been in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1827.
Triumph of Death Brueghel
Triumph of Death Brueghel
The Triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 1562 (Museo del Prado)
The Triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 1562 (Museo del Prado)
1597 version of The Triumph of Death by Jan Brueghel the Younger (Eggenberg Palace, Graz)
1597 version of The Triumph of Death by Jan Brueghel the Younger (Eggenberg Palace, Graz)
1626 version of The Triumph of Death attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Younger (unknown private collection)
1626 version of The Triumph of Death attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Younger (unknown private collection)
Danse Macabre
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The Danse Macabre, also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory from the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death.
The Triumph of Death
…a falchion. Bruegel combines two distinct visual traditions within the panel. These represent both the native tradition of Northern woodcuts of the Dance of Death, and the Italian conception of the Triumph of Death. Classic examples of his frescoes can now be seen in the Palazzo Sclafani in Palermo and in the…
Example of a woodcut from the book [The Abbott]
Example of a woodcut from the book [The Abbott]
The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel
The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel
Charnel house at Holy Innocents' Cemetery, Paris, with mural of a Danse Macabre (1424–25)
Charnel house at Holy Innocents' Cemetery, Paris, with mural of a Danse Macabre (1424–25)
Bernt Notke: Surmatants (Totentanz) from St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn, end of 15th century
Bernt Notke: Surmatants (Totentanz) from St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn, end of 15th century