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Bridal Pair
Creator:
Description:
Two young newlyweds (indicated by their rings and the circlets on their heads) embrace. The blossoming flowers and the lush green setting speak to their youth and fertility. However, this panel was once joined to another that depicts two corpses being eaten by snakes. Together the panels constituted a memento mori, a reminder to the viewer that all life, no matter how beautiful, ends in death and decay.
Source:
Wikimedia Commons
Rights:
Public domain
Subject
(See Also)
:
Marriage in Art
Memento mori
Geographic Area:
Germany
Century:
15
Date:
ca. 1470
Related Work:
Rotting Pair (Strasbourg, Musée de l’Oeuvre Notre-Dame)
http://karine.lanini.free.fr/genealogievanite_fichiers/image064.jpg
Current Location:
Cleveland, Museum of Art, 1932.179
Original Location:
Artistic Type (Category):
Digital images; Paintings
Artistic Type (Material/Technique):
Tempera; Wood
Donor:
Height/Width/Length(cm):
35.5 cm/ 14"/64.5 cm/ 25.4"/
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