Hans Baldung Grien's The 3 Ages Of Death

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For many years art has been a method artist 's have used in order to express themselves, and all of their feelings, experiences, and passions. Thus art tells a story, it tells the story of the artist that created it,, which mostly always relates to a vast majority and can be relevant for hundreds, or even thousands of years to come. This is exactly the case when it comes to Hans Baldung Grien’s art piece titled “The 3 Ages of Death” created in 1509-1510. Grien’s piece shows three females of three completely different ages; a child, a young women, and a elderly women. The 3 female figures are the same person. They represent the 3 stages of a woman 's life. Furthermore in Grien’s piece there is also a fourth figure that is pictured in a not