The Merchant (plate)
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The Merchant (plate) is a specific woodcut from the "Dance of Death" series depicting Death confronting a merchant to illustrate the inevitability of mortality regardless of wealth.
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
ⓘ
woodcut print ⓘ |
| artMovement | Northern Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToTradition | Dance of Death iconography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
Death
NERFINISHED
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merchant ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
personification of Death
ⓘ
wealthy man ⓘ |
| genre | allegorical art ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
inevitability of death
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memento mori ⓘ vanitas ⓘ |
| iconographicType | Death and the merchant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| illustrates | inevitability of mortality regardless of wealth ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | general Christian public ⓘ |
| intendedFunction | didactic image ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| medium | woodcut ⓘ |
| moralMessage |
wealth cannot prevent death
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worldly riches are transient ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | example of the death of the rich ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Dance of Death NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Christian morality
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Danse Macabre NERFINISHED ⓘ late medieval attitudes toward death ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | confrontation between Death and a merchant ⓘ |
| technique | relief printing ⓘ |
| visualMotif | contrast between luxury and mortality ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.