chaosophia218:Boetius à Bolswert - Allegorie op de Wereld (Allegory of the World), c. 15
chaosophia218:Boetius à Bolswert - Allegorie op de Wereld (Allegory of the World), c. 1590.A young man stands on a ledge of the abyss where he grasps a branch of honey. Death, represented as a unicorn, is threatening and bristling through the nostrils. Four snakes crawl from cracks in the wall, symbolizing the four elements of fire, earth, air and water. A fire-breathing dragon waits with the raised claws between the flames of hell for the fall of the young man. -- source link