Amsterdam as a center of world painting on a harpsichord cover with Allegory of Amsterdam as a center of world trade, SK-A-4947 Amsterdam as a center of world painting on a harpsichord cover with Allegory of Amsterdam as a center of world object type: painting harpsichord lid musical stringed instrument key instrument harpsichord Item number: SK-A-4947 Inscriptions / Brands: inscription: "Exclusam hesperia perituram Hispane putasti Me? Frustra: rose mihi cura Dei pandit iter ad Afros Primo, atque Indos, et qua patet extima China Quaque etiam priscis non cognitus Orbis Orbe. Perge Favere Deus d
Amsterdam as a center of world painting on a harpsichord cover with Allegory of Amsterdam as a center of world trade, SK-A-4947 Amsterdam as a center of world painting on a harpsichord cover with Allegory of Amsterdam as a center of world object type: painting harpsichord lid musical stringed instrument key instrument harpsichord Item number: SK-A-4947 Inscriptions / Brands: inscription: "Exclusam hesperia perituram Hispane putasti Me? Frustra: rose mihi cura Dei pandit iter ad Afros Primo, atque Indos, et qua patet extima China Quaque etiam priscis non cognitus Orbis Orbe. Perge Favere Deus daque his agnoscere Christum '(Do you imagine that, for the care of God first opened to me the way to the Africans, and the Indians, and shows me alien China, a world within the world, Which was not even known to the ancients Go forth with God's blessing, and give thesis (Nations) the knowledge of Christ) (English translation by Janey Stevenson, University of Warwick) Description:.. Harpsichord Lid Where: on the left image, the personification of the city of Amsterdam ( Amsterdam city virgin), seated on a throne with her feet on a river god. Her left the god Neptune. She reached with her left hand a globe. In the offing ships in a bay and a view of an Asian landscape. Above the seat keep putti the city arms of Amsterdam op. Manufacturer : painter: Pieter : Company Rucker Place manufacture: painter: Amsterdam Musical Instrument Manufacturer: Antwerpen Dating: ca. 1604 - ca. 1607 Physical characteristics: oil on panel material: oil Panel Dimensions: h 79, 4 cm. (Panel size) b × 165 cm. (Panel size) × d 3 cm. ToelichtingIn 1604 traveled Jan Pietersz. Sweelinck to Antwerp city harpsichord for the town hall of Amsterdam to maken. Subject: personification of a city, town patron (ess) merchant shipping, shipping trade (or folder) Asia Globe Neptune lord of the shaft SeaRiver-gods'Cornucopia 'Horn of Plenty When: 1600 - 1610
Size: 2285px × 1093px
Photo credit: © Art World / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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