Rijksmuseum 2021 – Hieronymus Tscheckenbürlin & Death

From 1487. Tscheckenbürlin led a comfortable life, but he decided to become a monk when he was 26 years old. Here he courts Death, as a symbol of the renunciation of all worldly goods and the goal of the eternal life in Heaven.

From the exhibition of Renaissance portraits Remember Me (Vergeet me niet) in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.