Birds appear on the horizon towards the back right of the painting, while the left background is dominated by five smoke covered hills.
Birds appear on the horizon towards the back right of the painting, while the left background is dominated by five smoke covered hills. Various tools lie scattered across the ground and the right foreground depicts a royal dinner party that has been interrupted as a fool hides under a table. A dark stained pond can be seen in the middle of the canvas, while a King is divested of his riches on the left. Replete with minor details and innumerable figures, it was painted two years after its artist's Children's Games and one year before his The Tower of Babel. Now housed in the Prado, it is dominated by a black fiery cart and the murderous skeletons who seek to fill it with bodies, for ten points, identify this 1562 work which depicts humanity's last days, a painting by Bruegel the Elder.
Birds appear on the horizon towards the back right of the painting, while the left background is dominated by five smoke covered hills.
{Triumph of Death}