The Dance of Death

XLIX - The Beggar.

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THE BEGGAR.
THE BEGGAR.

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Miser ego homo! Quis nie liberabit de corpore mortis huius?

Rom. vii.

Qui hors la chair veult en Christ viure

Ne craint mort, mais dit un mortel,

Helas, qui me rendra deliure

Pouure homme de ce corps mortel?

The Beggar, lying on straw outside the city, cries in vain for Death.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. -- Maurice Maeterlinck

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This is a collection of images taken from Holbein's Dance of Death. This book is illustrated with 49 beautiful woodcut engravings, each a miniature masterpiece depicting various manifestations of death. View more: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [14] [16] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [47] [48] [49]

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