Old age and death, Pieter Jalhea Furnius, after Jan van der Straet, 1570 print An adult man is kneeling with his hands folded in front of a table. Together with two veiled women, he adores a bowl on which two wings are located. To the left next to the man is a sphere with the image of different mites and a crown partly sunk in the earth. Christ has appeared in the sky above, surrounded by angels. A nude man, on the right in the performance led by the personifications of religion and piety, is kneeling before Christ. Under the performance is a text in Latin, numbered in the margin: 6. The print
Old age and death, Pieter Jalhea Furnius, after Jan van der Straet, 1570 print An adult man is kneeling with his hands folded in front of a table. Together with two veiled women, he adores a bowl on which two wings are located. To the left next to the man is a sphere with the image of different mites and a crown partly sunk in the earth. Christ has appeared in the sky above, surrounded by angels. A nude man, on the right in the performance led by the personifications of religion and piety, is kneeling before Christ. Under the performance is a text in Latin, numbered in the margin: 6. The print is part of a series of allegorical prints on the lives of man. Antwerp paper engraving Old Age, 'Senectus'; 'Vecchiezza' (Ripa). journey to heaven, pathway to heaven
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