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Night
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Night. Allegory with an old sleeping man among the stars, as Nox, the personification of the night, in the clouds. Below on earth activities related to the life stage of death: deathbed. Also in front of a house a torch procession of musicians and masked people. Part of the series of the four times of the day. Under the representation an inscription of 4 lines in Latin.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineNacht. 1590 - 1597. Adriaen Collaert. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
