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Painted epitaph to the fallen Blackheads
Lambert Glandorp1561
Tallinn City Museum
Tallinn, Estonia
A battle of the Livonian War took place near Tallinn in 1560 in which its citizens faced the forces of the Russian czar Ivan IV. The Tallinn Brotherhood of Blackheads uniting unmarried merchants lost 10 members in the battle. The memorial epitaph was commissioned in their honour in 1561 and what makes it remarkable among other things is the oldest preserved view of Tallinn depicted on it.
The memorial is now displayed in Kiek in de Kök cannon tower.
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Details
- Title: Painted epitaph to the fallen Blackheads
- Creator: Lambert Glandorp
- Date Created: 1561
- Location: Tallinn, Estonia
- Location Created: Tallinn, Estonia
- Physical Dimensions: Height 120.0 cm, width 99.7 cm
- External Link: Open at Estonian Museums Public Portal, Brotherhood of Blackheads (Wikipedia article), The Livonian War (Wikipedia article), Kiek in the Kök and the Bastion Tunnels Museum
- Medium: Oil paint, Wood
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