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Death Comes To The Table
In Giovanni Martinelli's Death Comes to the Table, Death shows up unexpectedly to a party to which he was not invited. Memento Mori: Death Comes to the Table is a fairly large (roughly seven foot by five foot) oil painting painted by Italian artist Giovanni Martinelli in the early 17th century. In this painting, four people are eating together around a table, and they are interrupted by Death. Martinelli's use of directed lighting, asymmetric composition, and the realistic representation portrays a very tangible experience of death. Martinelli's use of direct light on the expressions and on the hand gestures of the companions show their reactions towards death coming to take one of them. The incoming light is focused in the center of the
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