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Marco Dente|Baccio Bandinelli

The Skeletons, a group of emaciated men and women gathered around a skeleton laid on the ground and a figure of Death as a winged skeleton standing above it holding an open book

1515–27
Engraving
28.8 × 43.8 cm (11.3 × 17.2 in)

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