Iconography

LITERATURE

Ancient / Horace / Odes / III / XXX

SOCIAL LIFE

Still life / Arms / Arrows
Still life / Food / Corn
Still life / Sculpture / 'Dying Alexander'
Still life / Skull / Crowned with laurel
Still life / Skull / Placed on or by a book
Still life / Text or motto / Non omnis moriar

Further details

cf. the (formerly) signed painting in Yale (I. Q. van Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn, The Hague 1983, vol. 2, cat. II, Paintings 12, vol. 3, fig. 12), which has the same skull and a motto from Lucan, De bello civili, book 2, c. 380: SERVARE MODUM FINEMQUE TUERI NATURAMQUE SEQUI

Artist or creator

Gheyn, Jacques de, II (1565-1629)

Date

1620 (circa)

Location

Pommersfelden, Schloss Weißenstein

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Web resources

Yale University Art Gallery

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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