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Fame and History
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Fame and History

Hendrick Goltzius · 1586 · engraving; paper

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

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Fame blows the trumpet over History, who reads a book on a sarcophagus in a landscape with ruins. Below the representation two stanzas of eight lines in Latin.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
printlandscape with ruinsFama as Roman personification'Historia''Historia' (Ripa)
Credit lineFaam en Historie. 1586. Hendrick Goltzius. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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