Currently housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C, Death and Miser by Hieronymus Bosch is a chilling example of a “memento mori” (Latin for ‘remember that you will die’). This type of art reminded the viewer of the certainty of death and the vanity of earthly life.
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