Bellona Leading the Imperial Armies Against the Turks
1600
Artist, Netherlandish, 1571 - 1628
Publisher, Dutch, 1651/1652 - 1726
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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
2012.92.571
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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