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Allegory of Rome
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The goddess Rome, seated on a seat of weapons on a pedestal, in her left hand a statuette of the goddess of Victory. At the pedestal stand a woman with an ox (Europe), a woman with a lion (Asia) and a woman with a crocodile (Africa). In the foreground lies the river god of the Tiber and the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus. Below the representation two couplets of eight lines in Latin. Copy after engraving by Hendrick Goltzius from 1586.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineAllegorie op Rome. 1586 - 1596. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
