Eve is taken from the side of Adam.

Eve, having received an apple from the serpent, prompts Adam to gather more.

Adam and Eve, preceded by Death, playing on a beggar's lyre or hurdy-gurdy, are driven by the angel from Eden.

Adam, aided by Death, tills the earth. Eve, with a distaff, suckles Cain in the background.

A crowd of skeletons, playing on horns, trumpets, and the like, summon mankind to the grave.

The Pope (Leo X.) with Death at his side, crowns an Emperor, who kisses his foot. Another Death, in a cardinal's hat, is among the assistants.

The Emperor (Maximilian I.) rates his minister for injustice to a suitor. But even in the act Death discrowns him.

The King (Francis I.) sits at feast under a baldachin sprinkled with fleurs-de-lis. Death, as a cup-bearer, pours his last draught.

Death lifts off the Cardinal's hat as he is handing a letter of indulgence to a rich man. Luther's opponent, Cardinal Cajetan, is supposed to be represented.

The Empress, walking with her women, is intercepted by a female Death, who conducts her to an open grave.

Death, in the guise of a court-jester, drags away the Queen as she is leaving her palace.

The sun is setting, and Death leads the aged Bishop from the sorrowing shepherds of his flock.

The Duke turns pitilessly from a beggar-woman and her child. Meanwhile Death, fantastically crowned, lays hands on him.

Death, having despoiled the Abbot of mitre and crozier, hales him along unwilling, and threatening his enemy with his breviary.

Death, in a wreath of flags, pulls away the Abbess by her scapulary in sight of a shrieking nun.

Death drags the resisting Nobleman towards a bier in the background.

The Canon, with his falconer, page, and jester, enters the church door. Death shows him that his sands have run.

Death withdraws the Judge's staff as he takes a bribe from a rich suitor.

Death comes upon him in the street while he is being feed by a rich client.

The Counsellor, prompted by a devil, is absorbed by a nobleman, and turns unheeding from a poor suppliant. But Death, with glass and spade, is waiting at his feet.

Death, in a stole, stands in the pulpit behind the fluent Preacher, and prepares to strike him down with a jaw-bone.

He carries the host to a sick person. But Death precedes him as his sacristan.

Death seizes him just as his begging box and bag are filled.

The young Nun kneels at the altar, but turns to her lover who plays upon a lute. Death meantime, as a hideous old hag, extinguishes the altar candles.

"Melior est mors quam vita" to the aged woman who crawls gravewards with her bone rosary while Death makes music in the van.

Death brings him a hopeless patient, and bids him cure himself.

He contemplates a pendent sphere. But Death thrusts a skull before his eyes.

Death finds him at his pay-table and seizes the money.

Death arrests him among his newly-arrived bales.

Death breaks the mast of the ship, and the crew are in extremity.

Death, in cuirass and chain-mail, runs him through the body.

Death, as a peasant with a flail, lifts away his back-piece.

Death, playing on a dulcimer, leads him into his grave.

Death helps her at her tiring by decorating her with a necklet of dead men's bones.

"Me et te sola mors separabit"—says the motto. And Death already dances before her.

Death seizes her in bed, while his fellow plays the fiddle.

Death stops him on the road with his wares at his back.

Death runs at the horses' sides as the sun sinks, and the furrows are completed.

As the meagre cottage meal is preparing, Death steals the youngest child.

"Omnes stabimus ante tribunal Domini."

The supporters represent Holbein and his wife.

Death, armed only with a bone and shield, fights with the Soldier on the field of battle.

Death and the Devil seize upon the Gambler at his cards.

Men and women carouse: down the throat of one bloated fellow Death pours the wine.

The Fool dances along the highway with Death, who plays the bagpipes.

Death seizes the Robber in the act of pillage.

Death leads the Blind Man by his staff.

The waggon is overturned; one Death carries off a wheel, the other loosens the fastening of a cask.

The Beggar, lying on straw outside the city, cries in vain for Death.