Updated 18 October 2023
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Matthäus Greuter
Strasbourg, c. 1564/66 - Rome, 1638
Wendel Dietterlin (after)
Pfullendorf, 1550/51 - Strasbourg, 1599
The Power of Venus (after Wendel Dietterlin)
Date | 1587 |
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Materials and Techniques | engraving, etching |
Size(cm) | 21.0 x 30.6 (image) |
Inscriptions | Signed and dated below: M. Greuter inuent et fecit. Wendlius Dieterlin figurait Argentina 1587; Inscription below: Per Coelum volat, ecce, CUPIDO: Vulgus in omne Proterua coecâ tela molitur manu. Quem ferit infatuat VENUS ecce aedente cuculla: Curruque VANITATIS improba lorans; Raptat equus geminus quent STULTITIA atq VOLUPTAS; Regitque demens, CAECITAS; DERISIO. Cui comes it propris inceßens, atque cachinnis: Praecipitat ima fecum raptum ad Tartara, Qua locus EXITII est, leuâ sub parte, perennis. Foelix AMORIS fela qui praui effugit: Atq Pudificia monitu, et SAPIENTIAE, HONOREM. Quaerens, Sacranig VIRTUITI domum. Calle pius dextro sic fendit ad astra. Salutis Brandus aterna roelesti munere. |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2012-0004 |
Exhibition History
- 2017
- [Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017] Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 April 2017 - 2 July 2017, Akita Museum of Modern Art, 15 July-18 September, cat. no. 79
Bibliography
- 2014
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 47 (Apr. 2012-Mar. 2013), 2014, List of New Acquisitions. p. 59.