Alms box, 1694
Santa Maria dell'Orazione e Morte (Saint Mary of the Prayer and Death)
Via Giulia
Rome, June 2019
“To the right on the façade is a famous alms-box, much photographed. It has an incised marble slab which features Death as a winged skeleton sitting on an ancient sarcophagus, gloating over a corpse abandoned in the Campagna while holding a winged hour-glass. The date given is 1694.” (Santa Maria dell'Orazione e Morte, Churches of Rome Wiki)
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