Mortis formido

Unknown (Portuguese)

Veen, Otto van (1556-1629) (after a work of)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
1700-1750
Technique / Medium:
tile panel
Place of creation:
Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)

    Item location

  • Convento de São Francisco (Salvador, Bahia, Brasil)
    Tile panel at the lower cloister of the Brazilian convent.

Description

King Damocles sits at a table with a sword over his head with servants around him. Among them three musicians play a lute, a lyre and a shaker (sonajas).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (more specifically a Mandore, considering the curved pegboard.)
Lyre [3501]
Sonaja [4624]

Bibliographic references

Amaral Júnior, Rubem. "Portuguese Emblematics: an overview", Revista Lumen et Virtus 2/4 (May 2011) 134-148.

Fragoso, Hugo. Um teatro mitológico ou um sermão em azulejos? Claustro do Convento de São Francisco (Paulo Afonso (BA)): Fonte Viva, 2006.

Veen, Otto van. Horatii Flacci emblemata (Antwerp, 1608) 75.

Sotuyo Blanco, Pablo. Luso-Brazilian reception of Dutch and German Music Iconography at S. Francis Convent in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil).

RIdIM record id

3342