Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca 1525-1569), The Triumph of Death (ca 1562), oil on wood, detail 1.
Museo del Prado, Madrid.
An emaciated horse is pulling a cart full of skulls, ignoring a woman that out of fear has fallen in its path. Nearby a starving dog is nibbling at the face of a child, which is embraced in an arm of its death mother. To the left, a skeleton is helping a cardinal towards his fate, not before having put the cardinal’s hat on its own dome. In the corner, a dying royalty in his white and red fur-trimmed robe sees his barrel of gold coins looted.