Le squelette de la mort est confronté à un avocat cupide ou malhonnête alors qu'un client riche dépose des pièces dans sa main tendue, dans ce détail d'un tableau chiaroscuro de Jan Březnický 1571 sur la façade de la vieille mairie de Prachatice, Bohême du Sud, Tchéquie / République Tchèque. L'œuvre a été inspirée par « l'avocat », l'une des boiseries troublantes du cycle de la danse de la mort de l'artiste allemand Hans Holbein the Snager (1497-1543), dans lequel les gens de tous les niveaux de la société sont soudainement confrontés à leur propre mortalité.

• Contributeur: Terence Kerr / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2F9XKK0
• Taille du fichier: 19,9 MB (1,8 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 3152 x 2212 px | 26,7 x 18,7 cm | 10,5 x 7,4 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 confronts a greedy or dishonest lawyer as a rich client drops coins into his outstretched hand, in this detail of a 1571 chiaroscuro painting by Jan Březnický on the façade of the Old Town Hall or Stará Radnice in Velké námestí, the Great Square. The artwork was inspired by “The Advocate”, 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 and warning judges against bribery. 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. The two paintings by Březnický inspired by Holbein’s Dance of Death fill spaces between the ground floor windows. 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.A1517

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