Title-border: Copy of Holbein's Table of Cebes c. 16th century

Curator: Wow, it's teeming with life! This detailed print by Hans Holbein the Younger, a copy of "The Table of Cebes", just vibrates with symbolic density. Editor: It does feel like a world within a world. Look at the teeming figures; it reminds me of those densely populated Bosch paintings—all these tiny bodies enacting some grand morality play. Curator: Exactly! The image, filled with allegorical figures, guides us through philosophical ideas about virtue and vice—it's like a visual encyclopedia of moral choices. Holbein's copy really emphasizes the pathways people take as they learn and mature. Editor: And what’s striking is how relevant those paths are. The symbols of aspiration, but also the warnings against misdirection... those anxieties still resonate deeply with us. It's a powerful reminder of the enduring human struggle for meaning.