Allegory of the situation in the world, ca. 1645, 1644 - 1645 print Leaf with cut out and glued on an allegorical representation about the state of the world, ca. 1645. On the left, the secular and spiritual princes dice over the fate of the citizen and farmer. On the right the bourgeois life and the world on stilts. In the background wars on land and on the sea, in heaven the horsemen of the Apocalypse and the comet of 1628. Centrally the philosophers democritus and Heraclites in conversation in a globe under a fool. This conversation is printed at the bottom of 12 German verses and in 2 colu
Allegory of the situation in the world, ca. 1645, 1644 - 1645 print Leaf with cut out and glued on an allegorical representation about the state of the world, ca. 1645. On the left, the secular and spiritual princes dice over the fate of the citizen and farmer. On the right the bourgeois life and the world on stilts. In the background wars on land and on the sea, in heaven the horsemen of the Apocalypse and the comet of 1628. Centrally the philosophers democritus and Heraclites in conversation in a globe under a fool. This conversation is printed at the bottom of 12 German verses and in 2 columns in Dutch. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving / letterpress printing comet. Heraclitus, the weeping philosopher, and Democritus, the laughing philosopher. dice
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