Allegory of Death and Fame Rectangle Canvas Wrap Holiday Decorations The scene is set on

The scene is set on the banks of the River Acheron — known in mythology as the river of woe

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The German Tango (Lady Dances with Death) (1916)

Allegory of Death and Fame Rectangle Canvas Wrap Holiday Decorations The scene is set onSkeletons, also known as Allegory of Death and Fame (1518) by Agostino Veneziano (Italian, 1490 1540) Although for centuries scholars have attempted to understand the allegorical meaning of this print, 16th century artist and author Giorgio Vasari described it simply as "an anatomy of desiccated bodies and of bones of the dead." A central figure of winged Death stands over an interred skeleton, surrounded by a variety of skeletal and living human