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The Seventh Seal
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The Seventh Seal is a 1957 Swedish historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It stars Max von Sydow as Antonius Block, a medieval knight returning to Sweden during the Black Deat
Theatrical release poster
Theatrical release poster
Death and Antonius Block choose sides for the chess game
Death and Antonius Block choose sides for the chess game
Death playing chess, from Täby Church, fresco by Albertus Pictor
Death playing chess, from Täby Church, fresco by Albertus Pictor
Filmstaden main gate (2008)
Filmstaden main gate (2008)
Danse Macabre
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The Danse Macabre, also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory from the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death.
The Seventh Seal
…has a vision of Mary leading the infant Jesus, which he relates to a smilingly disbelieving Mia. Block and Jöns visit a church where a fresco of the Danse Macabre is being painted. The squire chides the artist for colluding in the ideological fervor that led to the crusade. In the confessional, Block tells the…
Example of a woodcut from the book [The Abbott]
Example of a woodcut from the book [The Abbott]
The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel
The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel
Charnel house at Holy Innocents' Cemetery, Paris, with mural of a Danse Macabre (1424–25)
Charnel house at Holy Innocents' Cemetery, Paris, with mural of a Danse Macabre (1424–25)
Bernt Notke: Surmatants (Totentanz) from St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn, end of 15th century
Bernt Notke: Surmatants (Totentanz) from St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn, end of 15th century