Hendrick Goltzius Allegory of Fame and History (Posterity)

Foto: Axel Killian

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Hendrick Goltzius

Allegory of Fame and History (Posterity), 1586

About the object

The final sheet of the series juxtaposes symbols of mortality and rebirth. Fama, blowing her fanfare, floats above a tomb whose inscriptions praise the immortality of virtue. Hoverring above the kneeling Posteritas is a winged hourglass, while a phoenix rises from the flames out of the small altar in her hand.

Object information

Titel

Allegory of Fame and History (Posterity)

Personen/Entstehung

Hendrick Goltzius (1558 - 1617, Artist) GND Biography

Fama <Fiktive Gestalt> (represented / portrayed Person) GND

Historia <Fiktive Gestalt> (represented / portrayed Person) GND

Galerie Gerda Bassenge (Handel (Kunst-/Naturalienhandel)) GND

Objektbezeichnung

Datierung

1586

Ort

Haarlem

(Herstellungsort)

Trägermaterial

Technik

Maße

Height 389.0 mm
Width 250.0 mm

Height 389.0 mm
Width 250.0 mm

(Sheet)

Height 370.0 mm
Width 233.0 mm

(Plate)

Height 323.0 mm
Width 230.0 mm

(Edging line)

Height 323.0 mm
Width 230.0 mm

(Darstellung)

Schlagworte

Inventarnummer

2019/104

Museum

Augustinermuseum

Standort

Nicht ausgestellt

Zugang

Kauf, 2020

Sammler*in

Albert van Loock GND

Handel

Galerie Gerda Bassenge GND

Permalink

https://onlinesammlung.freiburg.de/en/object/03577658F1404A8D8C27D65B1D51E4AD

References

Stroh, Stephanie; Sors, Anne-Katrin; Thimann, Michael: Verwandlung der Welt - Meisterblätter von Hendrick Goltzius. Petersberg 2020, S. 200 Seiten.