Historical illustrations of skeletons. Left: Death in the form of a skeleton with quiver on back and bow in hand by printmakers Hendrick Hondius I, Andries Jacobsz. Stock & Simon Frisius. Right: Allegory of celebrity after death. Death as a skeleton with an hourglass and an arrow. In the background, monograms of famous, deceased artists. Behind Death six lines in Latin. From the series Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Praecipuae Germaniae Inferioris Effigies by Hendrick Hondius I, Simon Frisius, Andries Jacobsz. Stock & Robert de Baudous. A digitally optimised composite of 2 historical images.

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