Sujet

The audience at the Passion Play, Ober-Ammergau, 1871. Creators: Unknown, Matthew White Ridley.

Légende

The audience at the Passion Play, Ober-Ammergau, 1871. In '...the rustic village in the highlands of Bavaria, the ancient institution of a public dramatic performance to illustrate an important passage of Bible history...is still kept up by the peasantry of that neighbourhood, with the sanction of their clergy...this curious exhibition...has been repeated every ten years since 1633,...in pursuance of an arrangement made for a perpetual thanksgiving, when the village was delivered from the further ravages of the plague...The people, many of whom are wood-carvers and have an artistic turn of mind, take this matter very seriously, and attend the performance as a religious duty. Nearly 500 persons are engaged in it - including the "supernumeraries" who appear as soldiers, servants, or Jews of Galilee or Jerusalem, and the chorus of singers. Our Illustration shows the mixed character of the audience - comprising many foreigners, Germans, English, and others, citizens of Munich, and country people of Bavaria and the Tyrol. The part of Our Saviour is enacted by Joseph Mair, a wood-carver...The play begins at eight o'clock in the morning, and ends at five in the afternoon, but with an hour's interval for dinner at noon'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A61_172

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

46,3Mo (5,3Mo) / 41,1cm x 28,3cm / 4850 x 3338 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel Germany female women woman people male event looking man men religious German arts country playhouse entertainment religion audience Bavaria art guy theatre watching British traditional tradition stage cross annual performance Christianity Christ performers performer performing Jesus Jesus Christ crosses location century Britain open air newspapers press print oberbayern concept actors typical acting B&W tourist attraction actor open-air engraved engraving OBERAMMERGAU life of Christ 19th century Thespian black & white black and white B W on stage nineteenth century tourism The Print Collector cultural event Illustrated London News Passion of Christ TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper passion play Unknown Oberammergau Passion Play The Passion of Christ 19th-century Matthew White Ridley Ridley Matthew White MW Ridley The Illustrated London News Ridley Mathew White Mathew White Ridley S Wade Wade S S. Wade Wade S.