Trap of Levens ladder-shaped structure filled with people and animals. Left Front is a baby in a crib, right sits an old man with his legs dangling over an open grave. When the baby starts a staircase age "of Who: g to grave ten steps counts ten stages of life. At any age can see a beast that characterizes this phase: the boy of ten has a jumpy kid with him, the forties is noble and wise like a lion, the fifties smart as a fox and the octogenarian sitting on a slow donkey. The 'young' side of the stairs is a tree in full leaf, with birds and musical instruments. On the "old" side hang glasses

Trap of Levens ladder-shaped structure filled with people and animals. Left Front is a baby in a crib, right sits an old man with his legs dangling over an open grave. When the baby starts a staircase age "of Who: g to grave ten steps counts ten stages of life. At any age can see a beast that characterizes this phase: the boy of ten has a jumpy kid with him, the forties is noble and wise like a lion, the fifties smart as a fox and the octogenarian sitting on a slow donkey. The 'young' side of the stairs is a tree in full leaf, with birds and musical instruments. On the "old" side hang glasses and stools in a bare tree. Printed two blocks on two sheets together bevestigd. Manufacturer : printmaker Cornelis Anthonisz. (Listed building) Dated: 1545 - 1553 Physical features: woodcut material: paper Technique: woodcut dimensions: image: H 495 mm × W 360 mm Subject: the ages of man represented by a staircasethe lifespan death as skeleton comprehensive representation of Last Judgment: Christ (with sword and lily) or at surrounded by elsewhere and sometimes Accompanied by Mary and John the Baptist, Appears in the sky with trumpeting angels (and sometimes angels holding the instruments of the Passion); after the resurrection of the dead the blessed are led to heaven by angels, and the damned are dragged into hell by devil

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