Meanings of death in Philipp Sadeler’s engravings from the 17th Century

Authors

  • Mauro Dillmann Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18316/1981-7207.15.7

Keywords:

Death, Engravings, Image, Badges, Jesuit

Abstract

This paper analyzes three images that demonstrate and express a sense of death in the European 17th century. These are pictures of the Flemish Philipp Sadeler (1550-1600) who helped to illustrate the book “ReverendiPatrisHieremiaeDrexelii, opera omnia”, published in Latin, in Germany, in 1680, and written by the German Jesuit Jeremias Drexel (1581- 1638). The aim is to analyze the functions and possible symbolic meanings attributed to these images by European Christian-Catholic groups of the period, in order to understand how the subjects thought or imagined death.

Author Biography

Mauro Dillmann, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG)

Doutor em História, UNISINOS-RS.

Professor Instituto de Ciências Humanas e da Informação e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História (Mestrado Profissional) da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG).

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Published

2015-12-23

Issue

No. 22 (2015)

Section

Dossiê

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