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Disputing card players and Death, Jan Lievens, 1638 print Two card players are hit, the old man is swinging with a jug as a weapon and his opponent has knocked the table with playing cards while a hand with a knife is threatening in the air. Death intervenes by grabbing the man on the left by the throat and waving with a bone. Under the print is a Latin motto in two lines that alludes to the vanity (emptiness) of man when death is in sight. paper etching Fighting. Card Games. (Personifications of) 'Vanitas', The Vanity of Human Life; Humana fragility, fleeting of sizes & of world glory, medit

Disputing card players and Death, Jan Lievens, 1638 print Two card players are hit, the old man is swinging with a jug as a weapon and his opponent has knocked the table with playing cards while a hand with a knife is threatening in the air. Death intervenes by grabbing the man on the left by the throat and waving with a bone. Under the print is a Latin motto in two lines that alludes to the vanity (emptiness) of man when death is in sight. paper etching Fighting. Card Games. (Personifications of) 'Vanitas', The Vanity of Human Life; Humana fragility, fleeting of sizes & of world glory, medit Stock Photo
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Disputing card players and Death, Jan Lievens, 1638 print Two card players are hit, the old man is swinging with a jug as a weapon and his opponent has knocked the table with playing cards while a hand with a knife is threatening in the air. Death intervenes by grabbing the man on the left by the throat and waving with a bone. Under the print is a Latin motto in two lines that alludes to the vanity (emptiness) of man when death is in sight. paper etching Fighting. Card Games. (Personifications of) 'Vanitas', The Vanity of Human Life; Humana fragility, fleeting of sizes & of world glory, meditation of death, vain work, vain pleasure, vain glory, vanita (Ripa)