Talk:The Triumph of Death

message: Is there any reason for that reference (in the "references in modern culture" section at the bottom) to be here?  Is it in any way relevant? --Charles 02:31, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In the "Popular Culture" and "Trivia" sections you will always find reference to some trash, specially, but not only, heavy-trash-metal bands, soap TV, irrelevant movies, second rate writers, etc.  In one sense it's pathetic, for it only demonstrates how the world are going totally bersek and how people lost their sense of artistic and moral values.  So I guess for some folks place a reference to "Hellhamer" in an article about Bosch is very sensible...  I have only one question: who the FCK is "Hellhammer"???  Never mind.  I really don't care. AlJoKe (talk) 07:55, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hellhammer? 

message: I have four comments on this entry:  
1. There are 2 crosses, rather than 1, both relatively near each other in the middle distance, on the left.
2. There need to be references for the possible interpretations. 
3. While I've no background in either art or history, I was surprised that none of the discussion mentioned the plague as possibly influencing this circa-1562 painting. To excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on the Black Death: 
"Plague often killed 10% of a community in less than a year - in the worst epidemics ..., as many as 30 or 40%. The most general outbreaks in ...England, all coinciding with years of plague in Germany and the Low Countries, seem to have begun in 1498, 1535, 1543, 1563 [I.E., c. 1562], 1589, 1603, 1625 and 1636."
4. Perhaps the recent comment added by "Gregory Allen M.Min." was meant as a talk page item, rather than to be part of the article--?? 
It is deficient in a number of ways for a Wikipedia listing: no references, a bit muddled in spots (unclear antecedents; awkward grammar). And did the writer accidentally write "apologetically" instead of "unapologetically"? Who is "Gregory Allen M.Min"? What does M.Min. mean - Methodist Minister? (Are relatively obscure abbreviations supposed to be written out in full?) Also, if it remains in the article, this paragraph should be listed above, rather than below, the References in Modern Culture header.—Preceding unsigned comment added by AlJoKe (talk • contribs) 07:57, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: It is ludicrous to state as a fact that Nabokov was referring to this painting in the cited story.  I have changed it to a suggestion, but frankly I think the entire paragraph should be deleted as unsuitable for a brief encyclopedia entry on the painting. Languagehat (talk) 18:12, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Nabokov

message: I have only a limited background in terms of art and history, but it looks pretty clear to me that people are being herded into the tunnel, which is in fact a trap, complete with a skeleton on the right hand side holding a trigger that will let the front flap fall down, imprisoning people inside. The lines of skeletons behind their shields seem to be there to make sure people run inside rather than round the edges. I haven't changed anything, as I don't know whether this is perhaps an established controversy, which would make the choice of words ok since it keeps things ambiguous. Still, I know what I see!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by JTzara (talk • contribs) 11:22, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Fleeing into a tunnel decorated with crosses"? 

message: Wikimedia has this image http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Brueghel_The_Triumph_of_Death.jpg it appears to be the same, except for a dramatically different colour scheme, did Brueghel paint both versions? Why is it so different from the more common version? Threadnecromancer (talk) 21:12, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Very interesting point, but it's not the same. Look at the clock, on the right and a little above midline. One shows a skeleton top with 'spiders legs' around it, yours shows a skeleton wielding a sword bang on midnight. Look at the lute player, playing to his GF at the very bottom right - completely different. There are other differences. 78.147.232.129 (talk) 22:52, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: "... completely different...", you exaggerate, it is by Brueghel's son, Jan, his version, with the same characters in similar if not identical poses and placement. Very like the testimony from two eye witnesses, but with paint, not words.  WurmWoodeT 07:45, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Question about the Picture

message: as it says. Mostly at the top right of the pic. I'm most curious. 78.147.232.129 (talk) 22:54, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone, please? 92.29.234.183 (talk) 19:32, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  What are the wheels-on-poles in the pic? 

message: It's good to see the predictions of the conflict dating so far back.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FCC8:E8C1:7000:AC4F:3556:CDB8:6283 (talk) 09:40, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  An amazing depiction of the Skeleton War