Légende

An alchemical beheading and dismemberment, 1582. Cutting off the King's Head: a dishevelled man stands over a butchered body. He holds the golden head in one head and his sword in the other. Borders decorated with birds and flowers. Illustration of the Sixth Parable. From "Splendor solis" (The Splendour of the sun), a treatise on alchemy.

Date

1582

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A15_385

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,7Mo (2,9Mo) / 29,4cm x 43,2cm / 3472 x 5107 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation nature Germany animal unusual building people male library man men head boat boats German flower flowers plant plants bird birds mountain mountains country naked body bodies nude torso science insect insects butterflies butterfly guy weapon weapons geography color golden dead decoration decorative leg arm death medieval gold war chemistry location century sword blade swords miniature concept decorated limb British Library nudity manuscript limbs beheaded warfare nakedness gruesome decapitated Colour dead body water transport weaponry mediaeval Middle Ages 16th century alchemy decapitation sixteenth century beheading dismember geographical feature illuminated manuscript severed head the body manuscript Unknown Salomon Trismosin Trismosin Solomon Heritage Art Salomon Solomon Trismosin