Totentanz in Pinzolo by Simone Baschenis, 1539



The fifteenth century church of San Vigilio, near the cemetery of Pinzolo, was frescoed in 1539 by Simone Baschenis who created a celebrated "Dance macabre" here, with saints and the cardinal sins, and a somber inscription referring to death triumphant, "io sont la morte che porto corona..."