Sujet

The Sergeant from "The Dance of Death", 1547, (1877). Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Sergeant from "The Dance of Death", 1547, (1877). A soldier fighting against Death. At his feet lie the bodies of other warriors. In the background is shown a battlefield and a skeleton playing a drum. Facsimile of an engraving belonging to the series "The Dance of Death" in "Les Simulacres de la Mort et Histoires facées de la Mort", Latin edition, 1547. From "Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et à l'Epoque de la Renaissance", Paris, 1877.

Date

1547

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/LTL

Notre référence

HRM26A20_264

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

43.3Mo (4.1Mo) / 27.2cm x 40.0cm / 3207 x 4724 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Germany people male group man men historical music German arts country musician book guy drummer running weapon weapons lying fighting combat fight death armour military war Renaissance text location century sword gesturing soldier wound blade literature swords SHIELD position concept face to face mortality B&W full length lying down hand gesture posture arms raised full-length lettering wounded warfare engraved engraving titled facsimile arms up allegory personification raised arms 19th century summoning battlefield resisting black & white black and white B W weaponry allegorical 16th century 1870s allegorical figure nineteenth century personifying sergeant sixteenth century history historic artistic school dance of death Northern Renaissance Hans Holbein the Younger danse macabre memento mori engraving portrait Western script Unknown lower case french text Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein Hans Holbein Holbein Hans 1877 Holbein Hans the Younger The Dance of Death 1540s 19th-century Hans Holbein II Holbein Hans el Joven Holbein Hans the Younger Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Agee Les Simulachres et Histoires facees de la Mort LT L