Prognostication of the end of the world, , 1663 - 1664 print Allegorical magazine with the prognostication of the end of the world, ca. 1663. At the top a performance in which the left the worldly 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 sea, in heaven the eight gods of the planets and the comet of 1628. Centrally the philosophers democritus and Heraclites near a globe under a fool. Below a magazine stuck with on either side in pilasters and below small representatio
Prognostication of the end of the world, , 1663 - 1664 print Allegorical magazine with the prognostication of the end of the world, ca. 1663. At the top a performance in which the left the worldly 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 sea, in heaven the eight gods of the planets and the comet of 1628. Centrally the philosophers democritus and Heraclites near a globe under a fool. Below a magazine stuck with on either side in pilasters and below small representations marked a-you from the story of Noah and the flood and heavenly phenomena from the past years 1660-1663; The explanatory texts in the middle. Amsterdam paper engraving / letterpress printing comet. Heraclitus, the weeping philosopher, and Democritus, the laughing philosopher. dice. story of Noah
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