(Description) Figure 3 In this painting (‘The Triumph of Death’) by an anonymous painter from Sicily around 1445, Death is depicted as a skeleton on a skeletal horse who is picking off victims, which indicates ideas about the role of fate or luck in death and dying at this time.

An introduction to death, dying and grief

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An image of a painting of a skeleton riding a skeletal horse through a garden where many people are lying dying or dead.