The Ploughman (plate)
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The Ploughman (plate) is one of the woodcut scenes from the late-medieval "Dance of Death" series, depicting Death confronting a peasant at his work to illustrate the universality of mortality.
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dance of Death scene
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artwork ⓘ woodcut print ⓘ |
| artForm | printmaking ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Christian eschatology
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late-medieval Dance of Death tradition ⓘ |
| culturalContext | European late-medieval art ⓘ |
| depicts |
Death confronting a peasant
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a ploughman at work ⓘ |
| didacticFunction | reminder of the need for spiritual preparedness ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Death
NERFINISHED
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a peasant ⓘ |
| genre |
allegorical art
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memento mori ⓘ religious art ⓘ |
| iconography | Dance of Death NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| illustrates |
moral lesson about mortality
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that death comes to all social classes ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | general medieval public ⓘ |
| medium | woodcut ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | shows death interrupting daily labor ⓘ |
| partOf | Dance of Death series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period | late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| setting |
agricultural field
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rural landscape ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | peasant life and mortality ⓘ |
| theme |
equality of all before death
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inevitability of mortality ⓘ universality of death ⓘ |
| title | The Ploughman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visualMotive | skeleton personification of Death ⓘ |
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