Shoot to Father's corpse, Balthazar van den Bos, after Frans Floris (I), 1558 print The print shows a story from the 'Gesta Romanorum' (chapter 15), a Latin collection of stories and anecdotes from the 14th century. Two sons of a deceased king fight for the succession. A judge decides to tie the case by the deceased prince to a tree. The son who shoots closest to his father's heart has been won and will be the heir to the throne. The print shows an episode from this story. The eldest son has already shot (left). The deceased king, tied to a tree, has the arrow in his lower body. While the rest
Shoot to Father's corpse, Balthazar van den Bos, after Frans Floris (I), 1558 print The print shows a story from the 'Gesta Romanorum' (chapter 15), a Latin collection of stories and anecdotes from the 14th century. Two sons of a deceased king fight for the succession. A judge decides to tie the case by the deceased prince to a tree. The son who shoots closest to his father's heart has been won and will be the heir to the throne. The print shows an episode from this story. The eldest son has already shot (left). The deceased king, tied to a tree, has the arrow in his lower body. While the rest of the spectators are debating the outcome of the competition, the second son (center) refuses to shoot. He explains to the judge (the man with his one leg on a bench) that he does not want to commit a custody. The judge then calls him a new king. At the bottom of the print on the left a cartouche with the story of the 'Gesta Romanorum' in Dutch fresh form. paper engraving shooting at father's corpse: two rival heirs are forced by a judge to shoot an arrow at a corpse; the false heir does not hesitate to do so, the true one, knowing that he will be shooting at his father, refuses
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