File:Malczewski Thanatos.jpg
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Summary
Jacek Malczewski: Thanatos.
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| Title |
Thanatos  |
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| Object type |
painting |
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| Genre |
mythological painting |
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| Date | between 1898 and 1899 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 45 cm (17.7 in); width: 57.5 cm (22.6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
not on view |
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| Accession number |
35590 |
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| Object history |
1935: given to National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) by Dominik Witke-Jeżewski |
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| Inscriptions |
Monogram bottom right: JM
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| Notes | The contrast between eroticism of the female body and a scythe, a tool of death, is an intentional combination of symbols in order to conceive the death as rebirth, a new life in a better world. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References | cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| current | 19:40, 22 February 2010 | | 780 × 603 (232 KB) | BurgererSF | Quality, dimensions |
| 18:16, 9 May 2007 |  | 800 × 644 (106 KB) | Ejdzej | {{Information |Description=''Thanatos'', oil on canvas, 45 x 57,5 cm, National Museum in Warsaw, Poland |Source=http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Malczewski_J/Malczewski_J_2.htm |Date=1898-99 |Author=Jacek Malczewski |Permission=Copyright expired |other_ |
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