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Stage with Virtues and Vices, 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 virtues and vices. In the center, the ruler on a throne, with personifications of Peace and Justice in front. Stage designed by the Brussels rhetoricians' chamber Het Mariacransken. 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: II.

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print Het Mariacransken Ernst van Oostenrijk Brussels Intocht van Ernst te Brussel

Credit lineToneel met deugden en ondeugden, 1594. 1594. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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