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The Seven Works of Mercy
Also titled De zeven werken van barmhartigheid
1504
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 103.5 cm x width 56.8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop
- 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 Dutch city is the backdrop to this narrative that shows how a good Christian should help those in need. Christ stands among the spectators in almost every panel. The scenes give an impression of urban society around 1500. The work was badly damaged during the Iconoclasm of 1566, when Roman Catholic churches were vandalized by Protestants.
