The Triumph of Death

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The Triumph of Death is a haunting 16th-century painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts an apocalyptic landscape overrun by skeletal armies, symbolizing the universality and inevitability of death.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf oil painting
painting
collection Museo del Prado collection NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Habsburg Netherlands NERFINISHED
creator Pieter Bruegel the Elder NERFINISHED
depicts army of skeletons
battlefield
burning landscape
card players
church
coffin
corpses
cross
dogs eating corpses
gallows
hourglass
king
musicians
nobility
peasants
shipwreck
skeleton
genre allegorical painting
memento mori
religious painting
hasPart bell tower
burning buildings
cart of skulls
king robbed by skeletons
lovers oblivious to danger
sea with ships
skeletal army
inception c. 1562
influencedBy Danse Macabre tradition NERFINISHED
medieval apocalyptic imagery
languageOfWorkOrName none
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Madrid NERFINISHED
Spain NERFINISHED
location Museo del Prado NERFINISHED
mainSubject apocalypse
death
inevitability of death
universality of death
materialUsed oil paint
movement Northern Renaissance NERFINISHED
partOf Prado’s collection of works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
support panel
title The Triumph of Death NERFINISHED
titleInOriginalLanguage De triomf van de Dood NERFINISHED

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder notableWork The Triumph of Death