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Painting “Passage through the Glass Globe”
Unknownaround 1800;
Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany
The motif is here shown to symbolize the passage through life and ageing.The picture follows in the tradition of home blessings, at hand in people’s living environment as worldly wisdoms and an exhortation for the generations.
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Details
- Title: Painting “Passage through the Glass Globe”
- Creator: Unknown
- Date: around 1800;
- Location: northern Germany
- Physical Dimensions: w91 x h75.5 x d3,5 cm
- Type: Object
- Medium: oil on canvas, carton, wood
- Inv.-No.: N (32 I) 28/2003
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-018719
- External Link: Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Copyright: Text: © Koehler & Amelang Verlag in der Seemann Henschel GmbH & Co. KG / Museum Euopäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / und die Autoren Photo: © Museum Euopäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Ute Franz-Scarciglia
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