Talk:The Triumph of Death

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[edit] Hellhammer?

Is there any reason for that reference (in the "references in modern culture" section at the bottom) to be here? Is it in any way relevant? --Charles 02:31, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

In the "Popular Culture" and "Trivia" sections you will always find reference to some trash, specially, but not only, heavy-trash-metal bands, soap TV, irrelevant movies, second rate writers, etc. In one sense it's pathetic, for it only demonstrates how the world are going totally bersek and how people lost their sense of artistic and moral values. So I guess for some folks place a reference to "Hellhamer" in an article about Bosch is very sensible... I have only one question: who the FCK is "Hellhammer"??? Never mind. I really don't care.

AlJoKe (talk) 07:55, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I have four comments on this entry: —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlJoKe (talk • contribs) 07:57, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

1. There are 2 crosses, rather than 1, both relatively near each other in the middle distance, on the left.

2. There need to be references for the possible interpretations.

3. While I've no background in either art or history, I was surprised that none of the discussion mentioned the plague as possibly influencing this circa-1562 painting. To excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on the Black Death:

"Plague often killed 10% of a community in less than a year - in the worst epidemics ..., as many as 30 or 40%. The most general outbreaks in ...England, all coinciding with years of plague in Germany and the Low Countries, seem to have begun in 1498, 1535, 1543, 1563 [I.E., c. 1562], 1589, 1603, 1625 and 1636."

4. Perhaps the recent comment added by "Gregory Allen M.Min." was meant as a talk page item, rather than to be part of the article--??

It is deficient in a number of ways for a Wikipedia listing: no references, a bit muddled in spots (unclear antecedents; awkward grammar). And did the writer accidentally write "apologetically" instead of "unapologetically"? Who is "Gregory Allen M.Min"? What does M.Min. mean - Methodist Minister? (Are relatively obscure abbreviations supposed to be written out in full?) Also, if it remains in the article, this paragraph should be listed above, rather than below, the References in Modern Culture header.