Apotheosis of the Arts

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jan Harmensz. Muller

Title

Apotheosis of the Arts

Place

Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)

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1597

Medium

Engraving on two joined sheets of ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Lettered lower left: "B. Sprangers inven. / Amplissimis ... Consulibus ... Bartholomaeus Spranger S. C. M. Pictor ... dicat consecratque MDXCVII Joannes Mullerus sculpsit." and below image: "Postquam Barbaries tractus .... pristina Regna. Harman Muller exudebat"

Dimensions

Sheet: 68.3 × 49.4 cm (26 15/16 × 19 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds

Reference Number

2023.1266

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