This is a painting in a medieval church near Stockholm. What did this inspire?Answer: This inspired the scene in Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal where Death plays chess against a medieval knight. Adi, anurag-thecrouchingtiger, Ramji, Raghu, Iam, samrat, QoD, Divya and 2 anons got it. Well done.
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The seventh seal
The famous scene of Death playing chess with the soldier returning from the Crusades in Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal.
The 'playing chess with death' scene in The Seventh Seal
the seventh seal
Ingmar Bergman's 'Seventh Seal'
The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is an existential 1957 Swedish film by Ingmar Bergman
Bergman has stated that the image of a man playing chess with a skeletal Death was inspired by a medieval church painting from the 1480s in Täby kyrka, Täby, north of Stockholm, painted by Albertus Pictor
-- Wikipedia
7th Seal
SEVENTH seal by bergman
this one is hard....but i'm going to throw a guess out there
The Seventh Seal?
-QOD
P.S. I got a pretty awesome idea while trying to figure out how to google for this picture. A sort of comparitive Image search thing, lets see how it goes.
"The Seventh Seal", a Swedish existential film about a medieval knight's journey across a plague ridden land (the painting shows him playing chess with death, his life resting on the game's outcome)
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