DÜRER, Albrecht: Young Couple Threatened by Death; or, the Promenade
Skeletal Death interrupts an elegant couple's stroll, his hourglass and scythe casting menace over their fashionable Renaissance dress. Dürer's engraving captures the medieval memento mori tradition through Northern Renaissance technique, warning that wealth and beauty cannot escape mortality's inevitability.
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