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Patience Triumphs over Time, Death, and Envy
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
On a globe sits the female personification of Patience (Patientia), with shield and palm branch in her hands. She sits upon Envy (Discordia) and a skeleton (Death). Beside her Father Time, as an old man with goat legs, scythe, and hourglass. In the clouds, a putto places a helmet with laurel wreath on the head of Patience. To the right in the background, a man is attacked, behind him a burning city. In the margin, a four-line inscription, in two columns, in Latin.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineGeduld triomfeert over de Tijd, de Dood en de Nijd. 1563 - before 1573. Hieronymus Wierix. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
