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Triumph of Death, Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Corpses having been struck by Death's arrows, detail from Il Trionfo della Morte, or The Triumph of Death, late Gothic fresco, c. 1446, by an unknown artist, possibly catalan or provencal, in the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, or Gallery of Art for the Sicilian region, in the Palazzo Abatellis, designed by Matteo Carnelivari in Gothic-Catalan style, 15th century, on the Via Alloro in the Kalsa district of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The fresco was originally in the Palazzo Sclafani and was commissioned by the Aragonese Kings of Naples. It depicts a garden with Death as a skeleton riding a skeletal horse, firing arrows and killing people from all walks of life. The palace was originally the home of Francesco Abatellis, port master of the Kingdom of Sicily, subsequently became a monastery before opening as a museum in 1954. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Corpses having been struck by Death's arrows, detail from Il Trionfo della Morte, or The Triumph of Death, late Gothic fresco, c. 1446, by an unknown artist, possibly catalan or provencal, in the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, or Gallery of Art for the Sicilian region, in the Palazzo Abatellis, designed by Matteo Carnelivari in Gothic-Catalan style, 15th century, on the Via Alloro in the Kalsa district of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The fresco was originally in the Palazzo Sclafani and was commissioned by the Aragonese Kings of Naples. It depicts a garden with Death as a skeleton riding a skeletal horse, firing arrows and killing people from all walks of life. The palace was originally the home of Francesco Abatellis, port master of the Kingdom of Sicily, subsequently became a monastery before opening as a museum in 1954. Picture by Manuel Cohen