Triumph of painting, Bernard Picart, 1725 print Allegorical title page with Peace (PAX), abundance (abundantia) and urbanity that wear painting to the personification of Rome. Ignorantia, envy (invidia) and superstition (Idolatria) try to stop them. On the right in the foreground Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, who pulls texts from the hands of Father time. In the sky on a cloud of eternity with a laurel wreath in hand. In the background a face on Rome. In the margin a nine -based caption in French. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving triumphs (allegorical and symbolic). 'Pictura', symbolic
Triumph of painting, Bernard Picart, 1725 print Allegorical title page with Peace (PAX), abundance (abundantia) and urbanity that wear painting to the personification of Rome. Ignorantia, envy (invidia) and superstition (Idolatria) try to stop them. On the right in the foreground Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, who pulls texts from the hands of Father time. In the sky on a cloud of eternity with a laurel wreath in hand. In the background a face on Rome. In the margin a nine -based caption in French. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving triumphs (allegorical and symbolic). 'Pictura', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ painting; 'Pittura' (Ripa). symbols, allegories of peace, 'Pax'; 'Pace' (Ripa). Abundance; 'Abondanza', 'Abondanza maritima' (Ripa). personification of a city, town-patron(ess). Father Time, man with wings and scythe. Mnemosyne. Eternity, 'Aeternitas'; 'Eternità ','Eternità o Perpetuità ' (Ripa) Rome
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