There's a famous Pieter Bruegel painting from 1562 called "The Triumph of Death" that someone contrasted with a "typical scene in a US department store on Black Friday" here[1].
It might take a few seconds to tell apart the painting from the Black Friday store. ;-)
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The original painting[2] has a gem[3] in the corner of it (that's not visible in[1]): where death is wreaking havoc, and a pair of lovers, oblivious to it, are playing guitar and singing. In that frame, you'll see death also playing guitar right behind them, in a neat visual rhyme, implying that their fate is sealed too.
Funny that the “typical scene in a US department store on Black Friday” is in a Brazilian store. Not sure if it’s a reasonable approximation of US stores on Black Friday or not.
