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In this allegorical painting, Man is being attacked by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins" class="extiw" title="w:Seven deadly sins">Seven Deadly Sins</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_(personification)" class="extiw" title="w:Death (personification)">Death</a>, but is shielded by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_virtues" class="extiw" title="w:Seven virtues">Seven Virtues</a>.  The inscription warns of the dangers of worldly vanity, and invites the reader to cast his eyes heavenward to the Resurrected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" class="extiw" title="w:Jesus">Christ</a>, and urges the reader to pray that his soul might reach <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/heaven" class="extiw" title="w:heaven">heaven</a>.</div>
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