The Soldier (plate)
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The Soldier (plate) is a woodcut from Hans Holbein the Younger's "Dance of Death" series, depicting Death confronting a military figure to illustrate the inevitability of mortality.
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
ⓘ
woodcut print ⓘ |
| approximateDateOfDesign | c. 1523–1526 ⓘ |
| artisticTechnique | relief printing ⓘ |
| artMovement | Northern Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Christian moral teaching ⓘ |
| basedOnMotif | Danse Macabre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionType | print series ⓘ |
| color | black-and-white ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Germany
ⓘ
Switzerland ⓘ |
| creator | Hans Holbein the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfFirstPublication | 1538 ⓘ |
| depicts |
Death
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military figure ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Dance of Death (Lyon, 1538) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | memento mori ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOfDesign | Hans Holbein the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBlockCutter | Hans Lützelburger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSeriesNumber | plate in the Dance of Death sequence ⓘ |
| hasSubjectHeading |
death in art
ⓘ
military life in art ⓘ soldiers in art ⓘ |
| hasTitleInEnglish | The Soldier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Reformation era Europe ⓘ |
| iconographicTradition | Dance of Death iconography ⓘ |
| influenced | later Dance of Death imagery ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | literate lay public ⓘ |
| intendedFunction | didactic image ⓘ |
| medium | woodcut ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | moral allegory ⓘ |
| originalLanguageOfAccompanyingText |
German
GENERATED
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Latin GENERATED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Dance of Death NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| printingProcess | letterpress with woodcut illustration ⓘ |
| publicationMedium | illustrated book ⓘ |
| repositoryType | museum print collections ⓘ |
| showsContrastBetween | worldly power and death ⓘ |
| support | paper ⓘ |
| theme |
inevitability of death
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mortality ⓘ vanitas ⓘ |
| visualMotif | armed man confronted by skeleton ⓘ |
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