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Carnes:The farmer and the cowman should be friends,Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends.One man likes to push a plough,The other likes to chase a cow,But that’s no reason why they cain’t be…
Contributor:
Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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A Memento Mori is one of three vanitas pictures in a series commissioned by Isaac de Matatia Aboab, a wealthy East India merchant, emphasizing the impermanence of material pleasures and the transitory…
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Benjamin Senior Godines
Places:
Dutch Republic (Netherlands)
Date:
1681
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The donkey greets the horse with his greeting. He says: “How is it that you are limping? Walk slowly to be sure you don’t fall. You’ll never be able to canter. You’ve surely grown old…
Contributor:
Moses Wallich
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
Date:
1697
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A Lion on his deathbed lay.
There’s truth in every word I say.
He was gravely ill indeed.
Then came to him a goodly host
Of all the forest-dwelling beasts.
They came most eagerly…
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Unknown
Places:
Verona, Venice
Date:
1595