Concept information
Preferred term
Dance to the Music of Time
Synonym(s)
- Dance of Human Life
- Dance of the Seasons (Dance to the Music of Time)
Note
- Specific artist: Poussin, Nicolas, 1594-1665
- Specific date: 1638-1640
- Specific inventory number: P108
- Specific location: London (GBR), Wallace Collection
- Specific medium: painting
Scope note
- Poussin: one of four paintings commissioned by Cardinal Rospigliosi, later Pope Clement IX. The 4 dancing figures represent Human Life (i.e., the cycle of the human condition: Poverty, Labor, Wealth, Pleasure), the old man is Time. The painting is called Dance of Human Life, or Dance to the Music of Time, but also (wrongly) Dance of the Seasons.
Notation
- 266841
- 266842
In other languages
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French
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Danse de la vie humaine
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Danse des saisons (Danse a la musique du Temps)
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/HTR-B74D3DFB-D
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