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The Seven Works of Mercy
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.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/11VV
- http://iconclass.org/42E23
- http://iconclass.org/44G311
- http://iconclass.org/46A212
- Beeldenstorm (1566)
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/11VV
- http://iconclass.org/42E23
- http://iconclass.org/44G311
- http://iconclass.org/46A212
- Beeldenstorm (1566)
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1504
- 1504
Place-Time
- first quarter 16th century
Provenance
- ? Commissioned by the regents of the Holy Spirit Almshouse, Alkmaar, and installed there, or placed in the St Laurenskerk, Alkmaar;{Knevel 1996, p. 240.} ? transferred to the St Laurenskerk after the closure of the Holy Spirit Almshouse, 1575;{Knevel 1996, p. 240.} recorded in the St Laurenskerk, Alkmaar, 24 June 1582 (‘[…] en hebben de Schildery van de zeven werken van Barmhertigheden, hangende agter in de grote kerk, tegen het Doopvond by het groot Orgel deerlyk bedorven met een quast met zwarte verve’);{Jacob Dircsz Wijncoper (d. 1599), ‘Kroniek van Wijnkoper’, RAA, collectie aanwinsten, inv. no. 3; transcribed in Boomkamp 1747, p. 387.} from the churchwardens of the Nederlands Hervormde Gemeente, Alkmaar, fl. 50,000, to the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, 1918; on loan to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2004-10
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.9048
- SK-A-2815
Extent
- height 101 cm
- width 54 cm
- width 55.5 cm
- height 119.1 cm
- width 469.5 cm
- thickness 4 cm
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Consists of
- SK-A-2815-1
- SK-A-2815-2
- SK-A-2815-3
- SK-A-2815-4
- SK-A-2815-5
- SK-A-2815-6
- SK-A-2815-7
Year
- 1504
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:14:44.914Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:40.447Z