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2. Death and the Miser - Wikipedia

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   Death and the Miser belongs to the tradition of memento mori, a term that describes works of art that remind the viewer of the inevitability of death.The painting shows the influence of popular 15th-century handbooks (including text and woodcuts) on the "Art of Dying Well" (Ars moriendi), intended to help Christians choose Christ over earthly and sinful pleasures.

3. List of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch - Wikipedia

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   Fragment of a lost triptych which also included Ship of Fools (the Allegory would be the lower part of that outer wing) and Death and the Miser (the other outer wing). Death and the Miser c. 1500–1510 Oil on wood 92.6 × 30.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA Outer wing of a lost triptych. The other outer wing comprised Ship ...

4. Ship of Fools (painting) - Wikipedia

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   The other wing, which has more or less retained its full length, is the Death and the Miser, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The two panels together would have represented the two extremes of prodigality and miserliness, condemning and caricaturing both. The Wayfarer (Rotterdam) was painted on the right panel rear of the ...

5. The Miser - Wikipedia

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   Harpagon and La Flèche in a German production of The Miser, 1810 Harpagon Molière The tyrannical father of Cléante and Élise Harpagon is a sexagenarian bourgeois miser whose love for his cash box exceeds that for his children. He builds his wealth by lending at usurious rate while pinching every penny at home, refusing to replace the worn ...

6. Allegory of Gluttony and Lust - Wikipedia

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   Panel at right is Death and the Miser. At bottom "The Wayfarer" which would have been on the outside of the triptych. Allegory of Intemperance is an oil on wood painting by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch made c. 1490–1500. It is held in the Yale University Art Gallery, in New Haven, Connecticut. [1]

7. How the richest woman in the world—mocked as a ‘miser’ in the ...

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   But despite being labeled a “miser” throughout her life, she didn’t take advantage of the situation. “Those to whom I loaned money got it at 6%. I might just as easily have secured 40% ...

8. Mono no aware - Wikipedia

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   Japanese woodblock print showcasing transience, precarious beauty, and the passage of time, thus "mirroring" mono no aware [1] Mono no aware (物の哀れ), [a] lit. ' the pathos of things ', and also translated as ' an empathy toward things ', or ' a sensitivity to ephemera ', is a Japanese idiom for the awareness of impermanence (無常, mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient ...

9. The Conjurer (painting) - Wikipedia

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   The Conjurer is a painting by Early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch or his workshop, [1] executed around 1502. [2]There are five versions of this painting and one engraving, but most experts believe the most reliable copy is part of the collection of the Musée Municipal in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, which is kept locked in a safe [3] [4] and loaned out on a limited basis for special ...