Bellona Leading the Imperial Armies Against the Turks

1600

Jan Muller after Bartholomaeus Spranger

Associated Names
Jan Muller

Artist, Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628

Gerard Valck

Publisher, Dutch, 1651/1652 - 1726

Bartholomaeus Spranger

Artist After, Netherlandish, 1546 - 1611

This is a painting of a warrior woman in battle. The central figure is an armored female warrior standing against a backdrop of a turbulent sky and battlefield. She holds a horn to her lips. Her attire is ornate with flowing garments and distinct armor pieces. To her sides, numerous weapons, shields, and banners are visible. The background contains a detailed landscape with armed figures in battle. The painting is in the style of Peter Paul Rubens.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 70.2 × 51 cm (27 5/8 × 20 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 72.6 × 52.6 cm (28 9/16 × 20 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.571

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 75, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ture Lundh, Sweden (not in Lugt). (Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 15, 1976; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

  • Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection, NGA, 2013 - 2014.

Bibliography

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Muller Dynasty, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 75, iii/iii

Inscriptions

below image, at left: B. Sprangers inuent. / Ioan. Muller sculp.; below image, at right: G. Valck ex.; below image, at center: Serenissimo Principi Domino Dño MATHIAE, Archiduci Austriae, Duci Burgundiae, Stiriae, Carinthiae, Carniolae et Wirtembergae B. (?) Comiti Tirolis R. (?) Nec non / Generali et supremo totius Christiani exercitûs contrà Turcas Duciae Praefecto foelicissimo, Dño suo clementissimo, Bartholomaeus Spranger. S. C. M. Pictor. D. D.; below image, in four stanzas: En Bellona ciet turmas procùl aere canôro, / Spicula Marte vibrat dextro succinctaque flagris / Bella fremit, fremebunda parat, gaudetque paratis. / Nec mora, feruet opus, Iouis ales praelia miscet / Quid dubitet. Bona caussa facit. Caducifer inquit / Macte animis: caussarum sum Deus ipse bonarum. / Exere tu modò vim facto agmine, Romula pubes. / Terrificum Turcis fulmen, victoria vobis / Nube volans praesto est: nihil impedit, exere vires. / Non ergò differ pacis, Germania, sedes: / Praesidio maiore iuua Iouis alitis ausus. / Sic sternes Mahomet: victrix tua causa triumphet.

Wikidata ID

Q76557207

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