#Gustav Spangenberg

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Gustav Spangenberg (1828-1891), 'Der Zug des Todes' (The Train of Death), 1878 "The dance of death motif shows death as a skeleton in the garb of a sacristan with a death bell in his hand. It precedes a procession in which people of all classes have joined the ranks, some of whom are dressed in Renaissance style. Children are also involved, so the motif has a memento mori character that is intended to remind us of transience even at a young age. But death also has something easy, it seems to dance with a coquettish gesture, in front of it walk two girls in festive dresses with wreaths of flowers, next to them a bride. The picture shows the train at the moment it reaches a crossroads where other people are waiting to be taken along. On the left sits an old, emaciated woman, a widow in her black robe, and asks to be taken with her hands raised imploringly. But death seems to ignore them, it takes the right to decide the fate of the people itself. Will he take the young man on the right side of the picture with him, a soldier who is saying goodbye to his weeping sweetheart at a wayside shrine? A flock of black birds follows the procession, behind which the sun is just setting on the horizon, symbolizing the way out of the light into the darkness of death." Source

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Der Zug des Todes, The Train of Death

Gustav Adolph Spangenberg, 1876

Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

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Gustav Spangenberg

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by gustav adolph spangenberg - aristotales'in okulu  

peripatetik okul

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Gustav Spangenberg, Hexxenritt “chevauchée de sorciéres” , 1870.    

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Gustav Adolf Spangenberg - Hexenritt (The Witches Ride), c. 1870 (colored).

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Hexenritt - Witches Riding. ~ Gustav Adolph Spangenberg (ca. 1870)

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Hexenritt—Witches ridin'. Gustav Adolph Spangenberg ~ ca.1870 New York Public Library • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

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“Hexenritt” (The Witches' Ride) by Gustav Adolf Spangenberg

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Le métier de la critique: il tema del camminare nella letteratura

Le métier de la critique: il tema del camminare nella letteratura

La letteratura offre molte esempi della trattazione del tema del camminare. Sarebbe impossibile ripercorrerla qui per intero.

La scuola di Aristotele – Gustav Adolph Spangenberg – 1883-1888

Solo rapidamente citerò il caso di Aristotele (348 a.C.-322 a.C.), la cui scuola filosofica è chiamata proprio “peripatetica” dal greco peri, ‘intorno’ e patein, ‘passeggiare’: questo nome evoca quella che…

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Gustav Spangenberg - The Train of Death (1876)

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Gustav Adolf Spangenberg - Hexenritt (The Witches Ride), c. 1870.