The Totentanz paintings (St. Mary's Church, Berlin late 15th century)
From the Medieval time and Early Renaissance is left series of paintings, what are named as "Totentanz" or "The dance of the Death", and the thing in those paintings is remarkable that in those paintings people seem to dance folk dances with the skeleton, or some other strange creatures. The thing is that the persons seem not even know or notice that those creatures are somehow creepy when they are dancing with them.
The creatures that are dancing with the people, who seem to have a good position in society and good clothes have simple clothes, which would not cover even their strategic places. The thing might be made for the warning, that in every team can have a traitor in the line, but there are many more translations and readings about this kind of graphics. On top of the text is another very interesting version of this type of paintings.
That painting is located in the St. Mary's church in Berlin, and it is painted in the late 15th century. In that painting is so-called humanoid looking creatures, and here I mean the creatures, what have a so-called soft silhouette. Their nose and faces are looking like very primitive, or they are not fully developed, and there are strange things in this painting. The thing is that those creatures, what are dancing with people seem to like more advanced than the skeletons, what have painted in the other this kind of paintings, where the creatures are only the skeletons.
Here I'm writing about humanoid-shaped creatures and I mean that there is something strange in those creatures. Their clothes are primitive and actually, they would not have more than canvas what to wear. And the thing that human creatures have good clothes is very interesting because the paintings what are painted for churches must follow the orders of the Catholic church and the Holy Bible. The creatures, what painter portrayed in those paintings should follow the letter of the Holy Bible precisely, and if that thing was broken the painter would burn in the pyre.
This was the rule in the world before the 30 Years' War. Even in the ordinary life, the painter should be careful, that the painting was not broke the rule of the church, because if that thing was noticed involving the blasphemy, would that cause the death penalty by the Inquisition. And the thing that this kind of paintings would see in churches might be quite a radical thing in today. This makes them interesting. Why they are painted? And who ordered them?
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| St. Mary's painting |
From the Medieval time and Early Renaissance is left series of paintings, what are named as "Totentanz" or "The dance of the Death", and the thing in those paintings is remarkable that in those paintings people seem to dance folk dances with the skeleton, or some other strange creatures. The thing is that the persons seem not even know or notice that those creatures are somehow creepy when they are dancing with them.
The creatures that are dancing with the people, who seem to have a good position in society and good clothes have simple clothes, which would not cover even their strategic places. The thing might be made for the warning, that in every team can have a traitor in the line, but there are many more translations and readings about this kind of graphics. On top of the text is another very interesting version of this type of paintings.
That painting is located in the St. Mary's church in Berlin, and it is painted in the late 15th century. In that painting is so-called humanoid looking creatures, and here I mean the creatures, what have a so-called soft silhouette. Their nose and faces are looking like very primitive, or they are not fully developed, and there are strange things in this painting. The thing is that those creatures, what are dancing with people seem to like more advanced than the skeletons, what have painted in the other this kind of paintings, where the creatures are only the skeletons.
Here I'm writing about humanoid-shaped creatures and I mean that there is something strange in those creatures. Their clothes are primitive and actually, they would not have more than canvas what to wear. And the thing that human creatures have good clothes is very interesting because the paintings what are painted for churches must follow the orders of the Catholic church and the Holy Bible. The creatures, what painter portrayed in those paintings should follow the letter of the Holy Bible precisely, and if that thing was broken the painter would burn in the pyre.
This was the rule in the world before the 30 Years' War. Even in the ordinary life, the painter should be careful, that the painting was not broke the rule of the church, because if that thing was noticed involving the blasphemy, would that cause the death penalty by the Inquisition. And the thing that this kind of paintings would see in churches might be quite a radical thing in today. This makes them interesting. Why they are painted? And who ordered them?
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