Façade ouest d’une chapelle construite en 1582 sur le site réputé de la maison natale de Guillaume Tell à Bürglen, canton d’Uri, Suisse. Il est décoré de fresques et la date peinte 1588. Sur la droite, le légendaire héros suisse et symbole national de la liberté, William (Wilhelm) Tell, tient son arbalète en plaçant une pomme sur la tête de son fils Walter. À gauche, le frère de William, Klaus. Ci-dessus sont les Saints Rochus, Guillaume et Sébastien.
2832 x 4256 px | 24 x 36 cm | 9,4 x 14,2 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
3 août 2011
Lieu:
Tell’s Chapel or Tellskapelle, Bürglen, Uri Canton, Switzerland
Informations supplémentaires:
Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.
Bürglen, Uri Canton, Switzerland: weathered yet still vivid frescoes painted with the date 1588 on the façade of Tell’s Chapel (Tellskapelle), a chapel built in 1552 on the reputed site of William Tell’s birthplace. The fresco on the right depicts William tell placing an apple on his son’s head. On the left is William’s brother, Klaus, calling for peace. Above are three saints (from left): Rochus with an angel and lifting up his cloak to reveal his plague wound, Wilhelm and Sebastian. William Tell was a legendary Swiss hero and patriot. According to legend, he was a peasant and expert crossbow and arrow marksman from Bürglen who lived in the late 1200s and early 1300s CE, a time when Austrians controlled what is now Switzerland and the Austrian Habsburg emperors were seeking to dominate Uri. Tell’s story symbolises the struggle for political and individual freedom. He defied Austrian authority by refusing to pay homage to a tall pole set up by a Hapsburg official, Hermann or Albrecht Gessler, in the town square. As a punishment, on 18 November 1307, Tell was forced to submit to a test of marksmanship and shoot an apple from his son’s head. He split the fruit with a single bolt from his crossbow, without harming his son. However, Tell was arrested for threatening Gessler’s life with a second arrow. He was then imprisoned by Gessler, escaped, and ultimately killed Gessler. Tell’s daring exploits sparked a rebellion, leading to the formation of the Swiss Confederation. Bürglen also honours Tell’s memory with the Tell Museum and a late-18th century statuary group by Swiss sculptor and modeller Joseph Benedikt Curiger or Kuriger (1754-1819). D1183.B4123
