PAIR OF RELIEVES, SCENE WITH CHARIOT AND SCENE WITH TEMPLE. POLYCHROMED WOOD. CASTILLIAN SCHOOL, 16TH CENTURY.

Pair of reliefs; scene with a chariot with a skull and a scene with a porch from the 16th century. Gilded and polychrome wood. Castilian school, 16th century. Pair of rectangular carved, gilded and polychrome wooden reliefs located on a later dark support in which a series of figurative motifs common in the European Renaissance are represented. In the upper one, a figure appears with a fork or trident pushing a horse-drawn cart on which there is a skull on a pedestal; This element has a type of temple or building in the background, and is preceded by a child figure holding a cloth. The lower one, starting from the left, shows a winged angel head, two human figures holding a long cloth (which crosses a kind of circular domed building or temple), and another winged angel head looking towards this central motif. The first of the reliefs presents the viewer with a clear allusion to death, being able to understand the figure on the left as a demon (and link it to the Sins), and the one on the right as an angel. The second could also be linked to the literature of Emblems, common at the time, or be a decorative element. The present work bears a certain similarity to others such as the fourth of the Seven Emblems of the University of Salamanca (approximately, first third of the 16th century), based on the Poliphili Hypnerotomachia, and recalling compositions such as the Renaissance bars of the Chapel of the Knights of the Cathedral of Cuenca.

· Size: Soporte 45.5x29x3 cms.