Tod und Abt / Tod und Priester (Chorherr)

Kauw, Albrecht (1621-1681)

Manuel, Niklaus (1484-1530) (after a work of)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1649

Height:

22.4 cm  (8 13/16 in.)

Width:

18.6 cm  (7 5/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

opaque colour on paper

Place of creation:

Bern (Schweiz)

Additional titles

Description

Two pairs: Death and abbot on the left, Death and canon on the right. On the right: Death is dancing and playing a bladder-pipe.

Iconclass

31F3
dance of Death; Death together with one or more human beings

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bladder pipe [3748]

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Tripps, Johannes. Den Würmern wirst Du Wildbret sein: Der Berner Totentanz des Niklaus Manuel Deutsch in den Aquarellkopien von Albrecht Kauw (1649) (Bern: Bernisches Historisches Museum, 2005) 38-39, Abb. 21.

Notes

Research Project Hochschule Luzern-Musik, Switzerland (Antonio Baldassarre, Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser, Dorothea Baumann)

RIdIM record id

4411