Aegidius II Sadeler's engraving of emperor Titus Vespasianus is based on one of Titian's paintings of the 12 Roman emperors, a series destroyed by fire in Madrid in 1734.
| Artist |
Aegidius II Sadeler
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Titian
RKD
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Marcus Sadeler
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| Title | Portrait of Emperor Titus, from a series dedicated to Roman emperors |
| Date |
ca. 1597 - 1629
ca. 1624 - 1650 |
| Period |
16th century
17th century |
| Location |
Prague
TGN
Venice TGN |
| Medium and support | engravings AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription at the top, outside the depiction: D. TITVS VESPASIAN.' |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, below: XI. Laudatae soboles stirpis laudatior ipse, / O Tite, virtutum clara propago Patris. / Delitiae, quo tum viuebas, atq- ainor, aeui /Vne voluntates surripuiSse sagax. / Vsurpet sine laude qius o’tam nobile nomen. / Tempora iam quod ad haec obsolet ista minus. / Perdidit, heu, subito quod non te numen amicum./ Si Tibi res fuerat perdere acerba diem. | |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, below: AEgidius Sadeler S.C.M. Sculp. / Titianus inuentor. / Marcus Sadeler excud | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | engravings AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-NK |
| Acquisition credit |
onbekend 2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-NK |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11742/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
AAT
300015637 portraits AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A71
male sex; man
Iconclass
31D14 adult man Iconclass 44B112 emperor Iconclass 48(+431) art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass 61B2 historical persons Iconclass 98B(TITUS) (story of) the emperor Titus Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
| Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700 : Vol. XXI. Aegidius Sadeler to Raphael Sadeler II : Text ; Vol. XXII : Plates / Friedrich Wilhelm H. Hollstein, Dieuwke De Hoop Scheffer, Karel Gerard Boon. - Amsterdam : Van Gendt & Co., 1980 (25) |
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