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On the bridge just above at the right, a skeleton is about to strike a prostrate victim with 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.
The fresco depicts a luxurious garden surrounded by a hedge. Death enters riding a skeletal horse, firing arrows from a bow. Death aims at characters belonging to all social levels, killing them. The horse occupies the center of the scene, with its ribs visible and an emaciated head showing teeth and the tongue.
Death as one of the biblical horsemen of the Apocalypse has been depicted as a skeleton riding a horse. The Triumph of Death is a 1562 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicting an army of skeletons raiding a town and slaughtering its occupants. [3]
The Triumph of Death (canvas, 1562) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder at Museo del Prado; Triumph of Death, (detached fresco, 1446) by unknown artist at Palazzo Abatellis, Sicily, Italy; Triumph of Death (former fresco, 14th century) attributed to Buonamico Buffalmacco at Camposanto of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
[3] [1] Several "Triumph of Death" paintings from Italy in that century show the character of death as either an animate skeleton or a human-like figure with wings carrying a scythe. [2] A horseback rider killing humans with an outstretched weapon is another common symbol for mass die-offs in this era, [ 4 ] as is the Danse Macabre , a group of ...
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San La Muerte (Saint Death) is a skeletal folk saint venerated in Paraguay, northeast Argentina. As the result of internal migration in Argentina since the 1960s, the veneration of San La Muerte has been extended to Greater Buenos Aires and the national prison system as well. Saint Death is depicted as a male skeleton figure usually holding a ...
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