Death as One of the Four Extremes

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Dirck Barendsz (after)
,
Johannes I Sadeler (publisher)

Date

ca. 1560 - 1600

Period

16th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Two women and two children cry near the dead body of a man. A funeral procession with torch-bearers can be seen in the background. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a four-part series on the four extremes.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Dirck Barendsz , Johannes I Sadeler
Type engravings
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 182 x 229 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-NZ
Description
Subjects symbolism (artistic concept) , figures (representations) , interior views
Tags Death (as one of the Four Last Things) Iconclass, female sex; woman Iconclass, kneeling figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass, child Iconclass, boy (child between toddler and youth) Iconclass, male sex; man Iconclass, lying figure Iconclass, mourning the dead Iconclass, mourning dress Iconclass, burial Iconclass, burial rites Iconclass, personifications of Death; 'Morte' (Ripa) Iconclass, death of human being Iconclass, cortege, funeral procession Iconclass, torch Iconclass, weeping Iconclass, tears Iconclass, the corpse placed on a bier Iconclass, burying the dead, 'mortuus sepellitur' ~ one of the (seven) Acts of Mercy Iconclass, art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-NZ
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11729/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-NZ
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