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An Audience with Death
Also titled Op audiëntie bij de Dood
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice, 1696–1770)
in or before c. 1735
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 141 mm x width 176 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
A group of young and old people has happened upon Death, as if by accident. Is Death reading to them from the book he holds? His audience seems slightly startled rather than shocked. Only the dog appears to grasp the gravity of the situation: its hackles are raised in fear.
