A naked woman with wings sits on the globe next to a man writing on a board. At their feet are geometrical tools. In the original, this print from a series of four has a caption of two lines of Latin and two lines of Dutch cut off in the Ghent copy.
| Artist |
Hendrick Goltzius
RKD
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|---|---|
| Title | Art and Practice (Ars, Usus) |
| Date | 1582 |
| Period | 16th century |
| Location | Haarlem TGN |
| Medium and support | burin engraving AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription in the dipiction, at the top: Ars |
| printed inscription in the dipiction, at the top: Usus | |
| printed inscription in the representation, bottom left: HG. fe./2 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | burin engraving AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-MQ |
| Acquisition credit |
unknown
2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-MQ |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11697/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
AAT
300055866 allegory (artistic device) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
23
time
Iconclass
23U22 hourglass Iconclass 25A13 globe Iconclass 31A the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) Iconclass 31A235 sitting figure Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 48 art Iconclass 480 symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ art; 'Arte' (Ripa) Iconclass 49D521 measuring-instruments Iconclass 49L11 handwriting, writing as activity Iconclass |
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