Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved and National Gallery director Kaywin Feldman discuss Hieronymus Bosch’s “Death and the Miser” and its symbolism of contrast: light and dark, life and death. Skærved plays a 17th-century violin sonatina that echoes similar contrasts of sensuality and fatality, beauty and mortality.

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Image credit: Hieronymus Bosch, Death and the Miser (detail), c. 1485/1490, oil on panel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.33

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