The Staircase of Life of Women On each step is a woman and on the step the corresponding age On the left the young years from zero to fifty, on the right old age from fifty to one hundred In the middle of the staircase is a depiction of the last judgment To the left is a group of women in front of a church with the text: Een soet beghin gheeft goet behaegen To the right of the Last Judgment, a funeral is shown with the text: Maer t ynde sal het paxken dragen Below in the margin six four-line verses in Dutch, Trap des Levens T' Vrouwe leven , print maker: Pieter Nolpe, F. vanden Enden, (

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