dpd_1792
A soldier, standing in front of a Tau-cross with the brazen serpent, is crowned with a laurel wreath by a flying angel blowing a trumpet with a banner; a skeleton with an arrow below the soldier's feet; bodies rising from or sinking into their graves(?); a skeleton sitting behind a devil on horseback, rides into a fire, followed by a dragon; a city in the distance, broken arrows on the ground
in urna perpetuum ..er (LA)
Iconclass notations
11D123(TAU-CROSS)
specific forms of the cross: Tau-cross
11G1926
angel(s) with other object(s), e.g. weapons
11G21
angels singing, making music
11K2
devils in the form of (fabulous) animals
11T1(+0)
representations of hell (with the damned and devils), usually with burning fires (+ variant)
25F42(+1)
snakes (+ animals used symbolically)
25F42(+5222)
snakes (+ climbing animal(s))
25FF(+75215)
fabulous animals (sometimes wrongly called 'grotesques'); 'Mostri' (Ripa) (+ animal riding)
25FF422(+1)
dragon (large fabulous serpent, sometimes with wings and legs) (+ parts, limbs and organs larger than normal)
25I12
prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city
31A2763
floating in the air
31A2776(+0)
sinking (movement in water) (+ variant)
31A2778(+0)
emerging from the water (+ variant)
31E23131(+0)
buried alive (violent death) (+ variant)
31E3
the corpse
31E4
raising from the dead
31F26
Death as skeleton
41B1
open fire (in general)
45B
the soldier; the soldier's life
45C13(SWORD)
hacking and thrusting weapons: sword
45C15(ARROW)(+69)
archer's weapons: arrow (+ destruction of weapons)
45C19(SHIELD)
protective weapons: shield
45C22
armour
46C131
riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman
48C7352
horn, trumpet, cornet, trombone, tuba
48C7525
one person playing wind instrument
49L8
inscription
71E324(+0)
the brazen serpent (Numbers 21:4-9) (+ variant)
86(IN URNA PERPETUUM ..ER)
proverbs, sayings, etc. (IN URNA PERPETUUM ..ER)