Fifth contemplation : Devoured

Kinugasa Morishige1670 – 1680

MAS
Antwerp, Belgium

Seventeenth-century Painting by Japanese artist Morishige depicting a beautiful princess in festive attire and then the various stages in the decomposition of her dead body, until nothing more of her is left.

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Title: Fifth contemplation : Devoured
Creator: Morishige Kinugasa
Date Created: 1670 – 1680
Location: Japan
Subject Keywords: Ethnographic collection
Type: Painting
Medium: Paper
ID: AE.4552.11-20
Department: Ethnographic collection – Asia
Acquisition: Bequest of Max Elskamp (1932)

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