The living and the dead from The Triumph of Death. Saint Macarius reads a scroll and shows three decomposing bodies in open coffins to a group of young men and women hunting. Le Triomphe de la Mort. Fresco by Buonamico Buffalmacco in the cloisters of Camposanto, Pisa, 14th century. Chromolithograph by Franz Kellerhoven from Paul Lacroix’s La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l’Epoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.

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