Naar het museum met een jurist als gids: recht in de kunst in Gent (10): allegorie op de zeven standen

Abstract

This article comments the iconography of an anonymous painting of the STA’M museum of Ghent (inv.n° 516), called "Allegory of the seven estates". It is a dance macabre with the Pope, the Emperor, a noble man, a jurist, a merchant, a farmer and a medical doctor. Comparisons are made with other dances of the death, and particularly with the representation of advocates and proctors in them