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Imagination tames Father Time
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Father Time, holding a broken scythe, is seized by the wings by an allegorical female figure with a mask at her belt; the personification of art, or imagination. In the left foreground, two putti near the portrait of Arnold Houbraken in an oval. The personification of imagination refers to the writer's attempt to preserve the artists recorded in the book from oblivion through biographical descriptions.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineVerbeelding temt Vader Tijd. 1753. Jacob Houbraken. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
