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41. J.P. Wagner, stone sculpture (1771/79)
42. Two box-shaped hurdy-gurdies
43. Hans Holbein the Younger. (1497-1543), Dance of Death
44. Petrus Tritonious, Apollo with the nine Muses (1507)
45. French depiction of the Dance of Death
46. Hurdy-gurdy player in Münster Cathedral (c. 1250)
47. Miniature in an English illuminated psalter (mid 13th cent.)
48. Miniature in an illuminated Roman d'Alexandre (c. 1340)
49. Painting in an Aragonese reliquary triptych (14th cent.)
50. School of Giotto, fresco in the Church of San Francesco al Prato in Pistoia; detail (1st half of 14th cent.)
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