An army of skeletons sweeps across a burnt, barren landscape, herding the living into a coffin-shaped trap, cutting throats and hanging victims while ships sink offshore. Peasants, soldiers, lovers, a king and a cardinal all fall alike. Bruegel drew on the medieval Dance of Death and on Bosch to paint a panorama in which no one escapes.
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At lower left, a dying king reaches for his barrels of coins while a skeleton holds up an hourglass. At lower right, a jester hides under the dinner table.
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