Year 1541–1544 Artist Hans Baldung Period Northern Renaissance | Medium Oil on canvas Location Museo Nacional Del Prado Created 1543 | |
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Dimensions 151 cm × 61 cm (59 in × 24 in) Similar Artwork at Museo Nacional Del Prado, Northern Renaissance artwork | ||
The The Three Ages of Man and Death is a 16th-century painting by Hans Baldung. It is part of a set of similarly themed paintings by Baldung, the others of which are The Three Ages of Woman and Death and The Three Graces. It is an allegorical painting which alludes to the transience of beauty and the fragility of human life.
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