The Triumph of Death. The Dream of Life. Knights celebrating a hunt suddenly find three open coffins. One of the corpses is reduced to a skeleton. The other two are half-decomposed. Chromolithography after a fresco by Andrea Orcagna, 14th century, in the cloister of the Camposanto in Pisa. "Vie Militaire et Religigieuse Au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la Renaissance". Paris, 1877.

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The Triumph of Death.

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