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Eight Stages of Life
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Eight Stages of Life

Barent Velthuysen · 1700 - 1750 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Sheet with 8 depictions of life stages: from top left to bottom right, the themes: the seven planets, the seven cardinal virtues, the ages of man, the ages of woman, the twelve elders from the Old Testament, the twelve patriarchs, the five senses, and the twelve apostles. Two lines of text below each life stage in a frame, and the names of the figures. Title above. Signed in the center: S.

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Credit lineAcht levenstrappen. 1700 - 1750. Barent Velthuysen. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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