Humana Fragilitas (Human Frailty), c. 1657, by Salvator Rosa; Photograph: DEA/A. DAGLI ORTI/Getty Images/DeAgostini. The angel of death is manipulating the boy’s hand to write in Latin Conceptio Culpa, Nasci Pena, Labor Vita, Necesse Mori. Conception is guilt, Birth is pain, Life is toil, Death a necessity [Adam & Eve]. See the dramatic art of Catholics Titian and Caravaggio and others like Rembrandt on epidemicpestilenceplague. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/17/plague-visionaries-how-rembrandt-titian-and-caravaggio-tackled-pestilence
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