Allegory on the state of the world, ca. 1645, Mundi Typus Vantatis, Das ist Eygentliche Erklärung dieser eytelen und zergängliuchen Welt/ von Zweyen Philosophen, Deren einer dieselbelacht, der alles aber beweinet sie (title on object), Sheet with cut out at the top and pasted an allegorical representation about the state of the world, ca. 1645. On the left, the secular and spiritual princes roll dice over the fate of the citizen and farmer. On the right, civil life and the world are in turmoil. In the background wars on land and sea, in the sky the horsemen of the Apocalypse and the comet of

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