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Allegory on the bad times
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Copper medal. Obverse: naked woman with a lyre in her left hand, standing between sunflowers, next to a bird within an inscription. Reverse: Death holds three arrows in his raised right hand and under his left arm a coffin within an inscription.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineAllegorie op de slechte tijden. 1492. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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