Description: Theatrum mortis humanae tripartitum (The Scene of Human Death), published in 1682, is a moral-didactic work, a kind of "theatre" of talking pictures, with which Valvasor wants to remind the reader of the transience of man and the need for a virtuous Christian life, which alone leads to salvation and eternal happiness. The content is succinctly presented in verse, supplemented with sayings from the Bible and enriched with graphic illustrations. The motif of a reminder of death (memento mori) and a call to a virtuous life is present in the Theater as a thread from the dedication and the opening address to the reader at the beginning of the book to its conclusion.In the spirit of Baroque metaphor, Valvasor compares human life to a theatre stage, on which images of life and death unfold before our eyes to serve as a reflection and a guide.The woodcuts of the second and third parts are based on the original drawings by Janez Koch, while in the first part Andrej Trost was inspired by the woodcuts of the Dance of the Dead in the book Imagines mortis by Arnold Birckmann. The first part, Saltus mortis, presents the Dance of the Dead in fifty-four scenes.The second part of the book, entitled Varia genera mortis, brings together various images of dying: the famous, the unusual, the grotesque, but above all the ghastly and gruesome deaths of historical figures, legendary persons or anonymous characters, presented in pictures and words.The third part of the book, Poenae damnatorum, consists of the torments of the damned, a colourful array of hellish torments suffered by the souls of the damned according to the measure of their sins. The various torments are accompanied by a short dialogue between the devil and the sinner, or simply an epigram, in which the connection between the type of punishment and the sin for which the unfortunate soul atones is most often explained.The text was printed in Ljubljana in 1682 and the copper engravings were printed at Bogenšperk Castle. The book is a cultural, historical and artistic monument that reveals the spiritual image of a time full of hardship. Rare. A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF THE BOOK: Book dimensions: 20 x 16 cm First edition Printed in: 1682, Laybach Missing frontispiece.Part 1:Missing pages: 9-16 (2 graphics); 19-22 (2 graphics); 107-110 (2 graphics)Page 83 damaged: torn sheet (graphics not damaged).Pages 115-118 badly damaged:, half of the lower part of the page missing, resulting in damaged graphics. Part 2Pages 146-151: Printing error, the pages were not printed in the correct sequence, which is not unusual for this work. (In most examples of books preserved elsewhere, the sequence is incorrect for pages 161-168.)Page 155 minor damage:, corner of leaf torn, resulting in loss of a few letters on one page, engraving intact.Page 175 minor damage;, torn edge of leaf, no loss of text, graphics not damaged. Part 3Page 209 minor damage: tear to leaf, no loss of text, graphics intact.Pages 225-226 severe damage: lower two-thirds of the sheet missing, with consequent loss of text, graphics also damaged.Page 229 minor damage: torn leaf, no loss of text, graphics intact.Missing pages: 249-255 (4 graphics). Total missing: frontispiece, 23 pages, including 10 graphics out of 120, 3 graphics damaged. The cleanliness of the pages is very good, the original hardcover is also very well preserved. Provenance:The owner is written on the joining sheet.Johann Jacob Engel 1772, repeated in red, this time with the year 1794.Johann Jacob Engel was a German philosopher and playwright, and the two years correspond to the period of his life. Whether this is the same Johann Jacob Engel cannot be confirmed with certainty, nor can it be disproved.
Price: 2600 EUR
Location: Ljubljana
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Erscheinungsjahr: 1682
Thema: Tod
Original/Faksimile: Original
Autor: Johann Weikhard von Valvasor
Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
Region: Slowenien
Genre: Kunst & Kultur
Eigenschaften: Bildband/Illustrierte Ausgabe, Erstausgabe
