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Stage with Apollo on Parnassus, 1594
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Stage with Apollo on Parnassus, 1594

anonymous · 1594 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Stage with Apollo on Parnassus. With the horse Pegasus and nine Muses making music, Mercury on the left, in the center the spring or fountain Castalia. Stage by the Brussels rhetoricians' chamber Den Boeck. Ceremonial entry of Archduke Ernest as Governor of the Netherlands held in Brussels on 30 January 1594. Part of the description of this entry: Descriptio et explicatio pegmatum, arcuum spectaculorum quae Bruxellae Brabant. pridie Cal. Febr. Ao. 1594 exhibita fuere, sub ingressum ... Ernesti ... Archiducis Austriae ... pro Philippo II. Belgicae ditionis gubernatore, J. Mommaert, Brussels 1594. Numbered: 8.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineToneel met Apollo op de Parnassus, 1594. 1594. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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