Promotional print with the portrait of the German emperor Jozef I, Arnold van Westerhout, after Giovanni Battista Lenardi, 1700 print Announcement of a promotion in Rome. Peace and an allegorical figure, crowned flower wreath, keep the portrait of Emperor Joseph I in the hands. Three putti fly around the cloud on which they sit. Peace points to symbols in the sky, surrounded by cherubins. With her other hand, she points down where war, sin and heresy fall. On the left, the female personification of love looks up to the portrait of the emperor. She is accompanied by hope and faith, who are talk
Promotional print with the portrait of the German emperor Jozef I, Arnold van Westerhout, after Giovanni Battista Lenardi, 1700 print Announcement of a promotion in Rome. Peace and an allegorical figure, crowned flower wreath, keep the portrait of Emperor Joseph I in the hands. Three putti fly around the cloud on which they sit. Peace points to symbols in the sky, surrounded by cherubins. With her other hand, she points down where war, sin and heresy fall. On the left, the female personification of love looks up to the portrait of the emperor. She is accompanied by hope and faith, who are talking to each other. At the bottom in a cartouche a twelve -line assignment in Latin. Italy paper etching / engraving symbols, allegories of peace, 'Pax'; 'Pace' (Ripa). the Three Theological Virtues. Heresy; 'Heresia' (Ripa). Vice, Evil, Sin; 'Peccato' (Ripa). symbols, allegories of war; 'Guerra' (Ripa). armour. cherubs, children's heads with wings
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