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Memorial tablet
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Memorial tablet

c. 1500 · panel; oil paint (paint)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

This ‘memorial tablet’ was painted in commemoration of the four canons depicted on it. The partially decayed corpse in the open tomb reminds the viewer of his own mortality and asks for his prayers: ‘Whoever passes by, look and weep. What you are, I once was, what I am, you will become, I beseech you to pray for me’.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
paintingAugustine, bishop of Hippo'Hortus Conclusus'
Credit lineMemorial tablet. c. 1500. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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