In the dying hour no wealth, Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550 print At the end of his life, man is confronted with death. He focuses his deadly arrow on him. Man seeks protection behind the image of hope, but the bag of money goes and falls over. A broken hourglass indicates that the last hour of man has struck. Wealth cannot help man after death. In a cartouche at the bottom of the print a Dutch caption in rhyme. The print is part of a four -part series about the uselessness of hope for money and other secular issues. paper etching / engraving personifications
In the dying hour no wealth, Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550 print At the end of his life, man is confronted with death. He focuses his deadly arrow on him. Man seeks protection behind the image of hope, but the bag of money goes and falls over. A broken hourglass indicates that the last hour of man has struck. Wealth cannot help man after death. In a cartouche at the bottom of the print a Dutch caption in rhyme. The print is part of a four -part series about the uselessness of hope for money and other secular issues. paper etching / engraving personifications ~ the life of man. Hope, 'Spes'; 'Speranza divina e certa' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues. acquiring riches. money-chest, treasure-chest, money-box. hourglass. Death as man (+ Death with bow and arrow)
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