La mort se tient derrière un juge et saisit son personnel dans ses mains squelettiques pour briser le symbole de son pouvoir alors que le juge passe du pauper à côté d'un homme riche sur le point de lui offrir un pot-de-vin, Dans cette 1571 chiaroscuro peinture par Jan Březnický entre les fenêtres de rez-de-chaussée de la vieille mairie de Prachatice, Bohême du Sud, Tchéquie / République Tchèque. L'œuvre a été inspirée par « le juge », l'une des boiseries troublantes du cycle de la danse de la mort de l'artiste allemand Hans Holbein le plus jeune (1497-1543), dans lequel les gens de tous les niveaux de la société doivent faire face à leur propre mortalité.

• Contributeur: Terence Kerr / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2F9XKNH
• Taille du fichier: 17,2 MB (1,5 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 3008 x 2000 px | 25,5 x 16,9 cm | 10 x 6,7 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 18 juillet 2006
• Lieu: Prachatice, South Bohemia, Czechia / Czech Republic.

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Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.

Prachatice, South Bohemia, Czechia / Czech Republic: the Skeleton of Death appears behind a seated judge and seizes his staff to break the symbol of his power as the judge’s attention turns from the pauper standing beside him to the rich man preparing to offer him a bribe, in this late-16th century chiaroscuro painting between two ground floor windows in the façade of the Old Town Hall or Stará Radnice, built in 1570-71 in Velké námestí, the Great Square. The artwork was inspired by “The Judge”, one of the disturbing woodcut images in the Dance of Death cycle by German artist Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543). In scenes re-working medieval Danse Macabre allegories of the inevitability and universality of death, in which people are invited to dance to their graves, the skeleton visualised by Holbein confronts dozens of individuals from all levels of society - from pope to ploughman - as they go about their everyday lives. The Renaissance front of the Old Town Hall is richly decorated with allegorical morality scenes urging Prachatice’s civic leaders to act wisely, justly and honourably, as well as warning judges not to accept bribes. Below a line of eight virtues in red ovals are scenes painted in chiaroscuro, the use of light and dark in strong contrast to define three dimensional objects, with the judiciary and municipal leaders addressed in a series of Latin inscriptions. Prachatice, founded in the 13th century, was once a wealthy trading town that gained from its location at the end of the Golden Trail trade route from Bavaria. It became one of Bohemia’s richest towns thanks to its right to levy taxes on travelling merchants and a monopoly to store salt, essential in medieval times for preserving food. D0128.A1528

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