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[[File:Jan Brueghel The Triumph of Death.jpg|right|300px|thumb|1597 version of ''The Triumph of Death'' by [[Jan Brueghel the Younger]] ([[Eggenberg Palace, Graz]])]]
[[File:Pieter Brueghel the Younger - The Triumph of Death_(1626).jpg|right|300px|thumb|1626 version of ''The Triumph of Death'' attributed to [[Pieter Bruegel the Younger]] (unknown private collection)]]
[[File:Follower of P. Brueghel the Elder — Triumph des Todes — 1628 (copy on display in the Kunstmuseum Basel).jpg|right|300px|thumb|
A skeleton parodies human happiness by playing a [[hurdy-gurdy]], while the wheels of his cart crush a man as if his life is of no importance. A woman has fallen in the path of the death cart. She has a slender thread which is about to be cut by the scissors in her other hand—Bruegel's interpretation of [[Atropos]]. Nearby, another woman in the path of the cart holds in her hand a spindle and [[distaff]], classical symbols of the fragility of human life—another Bruegel interpretation of [[Clotho]] and [[Lachesis]].
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