Triumph of Death, Left Half, This is the left half of the scene which "is located in the interior of an elegant enclosed garden where death riding a skeleton–like horse comes ready to cast deadly arrows on pleasure-loving nobles and elegant ladies that, being unaware, meet around the spring of youth. At the edges the poor and the outcasts are present, while popes, emperors, kings, monks and men of law lie on the ground already beaten by arrows." (From the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia online archive.) The spring of youth is presumably on the right half of the painting, in record SC.MSS.088.SPAN.0038. Also there appears to be a person in a cloak, presumably working alongside death and located behind him, who is holding back two malicious dogs on a leash., 1440-1450

 Item — Box: 283
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s41-i0058

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Triumph of Death, Left Half, This is the left half of the scene which "is located in the interior of an elegant enclosed garden where death riding a skeleton–like horse comes ready to cast deadly arrows on pleasure-loving nobles and elegant ladies that, being unaware, meet around the spring of youth. At the edges the poor and the outcasts are present, while popes, emperors, kings, monks and men of law lie on the ground already beaten by arrows." (From the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia online archive.) The spring of youth is presumably on the right half of the painting, in record SC.MSS.088.SPAN.0038. Also there appears to be a person in a cloak, presumably working alongside death and located behind him, who is holding back two malicious dogs on a leash.

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Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.SPAN.0038; Public Notes: This fresco was originally on the wall in the Palazzo Scalfani in Palermo, but it was removed in 1944 and transferred to its current gallery.

Dates

  • Creation: 1440-1450

Creator

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Biographical / Historical

Subjects: Arrows; Skeletons; Horses; Dogs; Death; School: Spanish; Style period: Early Renaissance; Technique: fresco painting (technique); Work type: paintings

Full Extent

1 Items : Image Work Type: book clipping ; Image height (in.): 9.3; Image width (in.): 5.9in.

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

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