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