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DOI article:Germ, Tine: A curious collection of curious deaths in Theatrum mortis humanae tripartitum by Johann Weichard Valvasor: context, sources, invention
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Fig. 7: Johann Koch, The Death of Jordanus, J. W. Valvasor, Theatrnm
mortis humanae tripartitum, 1682, p. 177.
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Fzg. 8: Johann Koch, The Death of a Youth of Senj, J. W. ï 'alvasor,
Theatrnm mortis humanae tripartitum, 1682,p. 183.
famous painting Christ Crowned with Thorns by Titian
(c. 1543, Louvre). The motif was copied several
times and disseminated throughout Europe by means
of reproductive prints made after Titian’s original
— thus Koch evidently had a chance to see a copy
of these prints.40
Valvasor’s Theatrnm also contains a few icono-
graphie novelties, námely some newly added death
cases which cannot be found in earlier records and
are thus a literary and iconographie novum in the füll
meaning of the word. Their choice and manner of
présentation particularly clearly demonstrate the
be a lesson to other aspirants: he was put on a heated throne
and crowned with a red-hot iron crown. Valvasor cites as his
source the Chronica Slavorum by Arnold of Lübeck, a copy of
which he had in his library, but the story can also be found
in Gottfried’s Chronicle (VI, 560-561), where an illustration is
also added.
author’s concept of the Varia généra mortis, which
combines horror and eccentricity, documentary ac-
counts and exoticism, édification and moralizing, ail
of these spiced up with a dash of humour. Each of
the three original stories — The Death of a Youth of Senj
(JTheatrum mortis, 182-183), The Death of Jakob Vojnié
(JTheatrum mortis, 146-147) and The Death of a Maiden
of Okucani (JTheatrum mortis, 168-169) — is exceptional
in its own way, ail of them hâve a local flavour (they
took place in the near vicinity, in Croatia) and they
were also topical in terms of temporal proximity,
since they had happened not long before.
40 For the echoes of Titian’s composition, which was dissemina-
ted by reproductive prints, see: TOMIC, R.: Slikarska djela u
Dalmaciji nastala prema grafičkim predlošcima. In: PELC, M.
(ed.): Klovicev fitormk. Minijatura — črtej-grafika 1450. — 1700.
Zbornik radova sa ^nanstvenoga skupa povodom petstote obljetnice
rodenja Jurja Julija Klovica, Zagreb 2001, pp. 161-169.
60
Quid ergo prodeft ei, quodlaboravitinventum.
Ecclef.cap.^.
íSJdě^ňíffíftó^DMfffl/íx$fl*ítt Den '®úi&gcai-6cířcÉ
Çat, Ecdef.cap. ç.
Z SER-
Fig. 7: Johann Koch, The Death of Jordanus, J. W. Valvasor, Theatrnm
mortis humanae tripartitum, 1682, p. 177.
Sntafdhc bliche 185
Scd& ferpenseratcallidiorcunftis.animalibus terne.
(àencf.cap, 3.
'Suť Mc ©djidi ig w iü/îûjcf fcim d((c Tf>icr auff&tcíí.
Gtnef. cap. 3.
Fzg. 8: Johann Koch, The Death of a Youth of Senj, J. W. ï 'alvasor,
Theatrnm mortis humanae tripartitum, 1682,p. 183.
famous painting Christ Crowned with Thorns by Titian
(c. 1543, Louvre). The motif was copied several
times and disseminated throughout Europe by means
of reproductive prints made after Titian’s original
— thus Koch evidently had a chance to see a copy
of these prints.40
Valvasor’s Theatrnm also contains a few icono-
graphie novelties, námely some newly added death
cases which cannot be found in earlier records and
are thus a literary and iconographie novum in the füll
meaning of the word. Their choice and manner of
présentation particularly clearly demonstrate the
be a lesson to other aspirants: he was put on a heated throne
and crowned with a red-hot iron crown. Valvasor cites as his
source the Chronica Slavorum by Arnold of Lübeck, a copy of
which he had in his library, but the story can also be found
in Gottfried’s Chronicle (VI, 560-561), where an illustration is
also added.
author’s concept of the Varia généra mortis, which
combines horror and eccentricity, documentary ac-
counts and exoticism, édification and moralizing, ail
of these spiced up with a dash of humour. Each of
the three original stories — The Death of a Youth of Senj
(JTheatrum mortis, 182-183), The Death of Jakob Vojnié
(JTheatrum mortis, 146-147) and The Death of a Maiden
of Okucani (JTheatrum mortis, 168-169) — is exceptional
in its own way, ail of them hâve a local flavour (they
took place in the near vicinity, in Croatia) and they
were also topical in terms of temporal proximity,
since they had happened not long before.
40 For the echoes of Titian’s composition, which was dissemina-
ted by reproductive prints, see: TOMIC, R.: Slikarska djela u
Dalmaciji nastala prema grafičkim predlošcima. In: PELC, M.
(ed.): Klovicev fitormk. Minijatura — črtej-grafika 1450. — 1700.
Zbornik radova sa ^nanstvenoga skupa povodom petstote obljetnice
rodenja Jurja Julija Klovica, Zagreb 2001, pp. 161-169.
60