Het levensrad The levensrad Object Type : picture Item number: RP-P-1932-129Catalogusreferentie: Nijhoff 291Nijhoff 292 Inscriptions / Brands: inscription, recto top center, printed: "Waect now: for GHY do not know / When: the Lord of Huys Comté .... 'Description: Allegory on the volatility and fragility of the life of man. On a wheel lying in a landscape, depicts the four life stages of man: a naked child with flowers (childhood); a young man with a falcon (youth), a middle-aged man with a pluisbol (adulthood), and leaning on a stick with an old man taking Nawal candle and rosary in hand (old
Het levensrad The levensrad Object Type : picture Item number: RP-P-1932-129Catalogusreferentie: Nijhoff 291Nijhoff 292 Inscriptions / Brands: inscription, recto top center, printed: "Waect now: for GHY do not know / When: the Lord of Huys Comté .... 'Description: Allegory on the volatility and fragility of the life of man. On a wheel lying in a landscape, depicts the four life stages of man: a naked child with flowers (childhood); a young man with a falcon (youth), a middle-aged man with a pluisbol (adulthood), and leaning on a stick with an old man taking Nawal candle and rosary in hand (old age). All figures have wings on his feet. the wheel on the axle, the winged death with hourglass and arrow on a globe. Moreover enthroned on a cloud, Christ as judge at the Last Judgment. The biblical texts in the show relate to the unexpected arrival of death and the fact that people should be aware of this. The prose text below explains the idea and comments on these. Print is printed from two blocks on two sheets of paper together bevestigd. Manufacturer : printmaker: Monogrammist AI (16th century) (possible) to design Cornelis Anthonisz. (Nearby) Editor: Peter Warnerssen (listed property) Place manufacture: Camp Dates: 1558 Physical features: woodcut, hand colored material: paper Technique: woodcut / hand color dimensions: sheet: H 532 mm × W 357 mm Subject: Turn of Fate, Wheel or FortuneVicissitudes of Life Human life divided into stages, eg three, four, seven, twelve courses (with NUMBER) Death axis skeleton last Judgment
Size: 1300px × 1923px
Photo credit: © Art World / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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