Men and women look in the opened tombs of historical persons, Cornelis van Dalen (I), after Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne, 1655 print Men and women, including high -ranking people such as Kings and Queen, look into the opened tombs of historical people whose skeletons are left. All react with horror when seeing the remains of Alexander the Great, Helena or Salomon. Above a hand with banderole with the text sic transit gloria mundi, under a banderole with the text Mors Ultima Linea Rerum. Amsterdam paper engraving opening of grave, exhumation. life versus death. Mortality, Extinction of Life

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