The painting that inspired The Seventh Seal


There’s an interesting article in this month’s Sight and Sound about the late director Ingmar Bergman, which mentions this painting by the Swedish painter Albertus Pictor, which depicts Death playing chess. Now where’ve I seen that before?

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