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Hand-colored woodcut of a globe on a pedestal inside a wheel, with four figures representing stages of life and a skeleton and angel above.

The Wheel of Life, 1558 woodcut

A hand-colored woodcut shows a globe on a pedestal at the center of a circular wheel, flanked by four figures representing stages of life: a young man at left, a man in a hat at right, an old man at lower right, and a child below. Above, a skeleton and an angel with a trumpet appear against a smoky sky.

Artist
Monogrammist AI (16e eeuw) (mogelijk)
Date
1558
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
2703 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1558.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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