Death and the Peasant
This woodcut, part of Hans Holbein the Younger's iconic "Danse Macabre" series, depicts the stark reality of mortality reaching across all social strata. Here, Death, a skeletal figure, confronts a peasant. The woodcut powerfully illustrates that life's toil and suffering offer no immunity from the inevitable end. It's a profound meditation on the universality of death, a theme that resonated deeply during the plague-ridden eras of the Renaissance.
Death and the Peasant