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The novelist Dostoevsky said you could lose your faith looking at this painting. It contains no hint of Christian resurrection. Holbein has simply painted a dead body, showing its greenish skin and tautening sinews as decay sets in. It is the most frightening of his images of death, which also include darkly comic prints of the dance of death and a huge, distorted skull that sears balefully across his painting The Ambassadors.

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