Xerses phus

2021-08-06 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 6/n
Albertus Pictor (attr.)
Death playing chess with man
Mural painting
late 1480s
Täby parish church, Uppland, Sweden
#chess #VisualArts #painting #MuralPainting #MiddleAges #AlbertusPictor

Xerses phus

2021-08-02 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 4/n
Buzurgmihr masters the game of chess
Folio from the #Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Author: #Firdausi (ca. 940/41-1020)
Persian manuscript made in Iran or Iraq
ca. 1300-30
Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
#chess #VisualArts #IlluminatedManuscript #MiddleAges

Xerses phus

2021-08-04 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 5/n
Marcel #Duchamp
Portrait of chess players
Oil on canvas
1911
Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
#chess #VisualArts #painting #DuchampMarcel #Duchamp1911 #ChessPlayer

Xerses phus

2021-07-30 04:00:01

#ChessInVisualArts 3/n
Gunther von Hagens
Chess player
Plastination
2006
Plastinarium, Guben, Germany
#chess #VisualArts #sculpture #plastination #HagensGuntherVon #ChessPlayer
photo: dpa/shp pzi ent

Xerses phus

2021-07-26 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 1/n
Libro de los juegos (Book of games)
commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile
completed in Toledo in 1283
Library of the Monastery of El Escorial, Spain
#chess #VisualArts #IlluminatedManuscript #LibroDeLosJuegos1283 #ChessHistory #MiddleAges