Death and the Devil Surprising Two Women - Daniel Hopfer Art Print
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Two Augsburg women lean toward a convex mirror, and the glass flatters them for one more second. Daniel Hopfer caught that second around 1515. History filed it as Death and the Devil Surprising Two Women, a German Renaissance vanitas etched in lampblack on tallow-cream paper.
Look at what the mirror misses. Behind a netted coif and a link chain fat with merchant money, Death lifts a skull above the taller woman's braided bun and crowns her with her own future. His other hand tilts an hourglass. Sand runs. Her friend in the plumed beret keeps a palm on her shoulder, still admiring the necklace.
Ointment flasks wait on the dressing table. At the balustrade a bristling devil rears on bird claws, a second face leering from his belly. An imp with a spear rides his horns. The city's sumptuary laws rationed chains and velvet by rank, and Hopfer's needle spends ink on every pleat anyway.
Daniel Hopfer's Death and the Devil Surprising Two Women is the Totentanz with the music taken out, a danse macabre shrunk to a single terrace. Hopfer carried etching off the breastplate and onto paper ahead of nearly everyone in the Northern Renaissance. He cross-hatched vanity and rot with equal appetite. But this old master print keeps its memento mori short: a mirror is always the smallest window in the room.
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