Memento mori with a common death, by Alcalá Yáñez y Ribera (1626)

Title

Memento mori with a common death, by Alcalá Yáñez y Ribera (1626)

Description

"I smiled then, and told him: Your Grace, sir, you have not understood this mystery: you will have to know that this image that you mention is a painting made with a certain trace, now invented with certain slats, which painted on one side make it look like a gallant, and on the other a lady, and in front, on the flat side of the slat, death: so that it shows three figures as you move the place from which to look at it." Translated, see original:

"Sonreíme entónces, y díjele: Vuesamerced, señor, no ha caido en este misterio: habrá de saber que esta imágen que dice es una pintura hecha con cierta traza, inventada ahora nuevamente con ciertas tablillas, que pintadas por el un lado hacen parecer un galan y por el otro una dama, y en frente, en el llano de la tabla, una muerte: de modo que hace tres figuras mudando el lugar para mirarla."

Creator

Alcalá Yáñez y Ribera, Jerónimo (1571-1632)

Source

Excerpt from the picaresque book by Alcalá Yáñez y Ribera, Jerónimo, El donado hablador Alonso, mozo de muchos amos. Segunda parte ("The gifted talker Alonso, young man of many masters. Second part") (1626) published in Cayetano Rossel, Atlas (Madrid) (1946).

Date

1626

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