| Artist |
Jacob Männl
Wikidata
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Luca Giordano
RKD
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| Title | A Philosopher Contemplating a Skull, from the series Pièces gravées d'après les tableaux de la galerie impériale royale de Vienne |
| Date | ca. 1675 - 1700 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Medium and support | mezzotints (prints) AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription outside the depiction, below: Lucas Iordanus Neapolitano pinxit. / Alta 6:lata4: |
| inscription bottom right, outside the depiction: Jacob Männl / S:C:M:Chalcographus / Delineavit et Sculpsit | |
| inscription on the reverse: 16th. Print in Strutt [...] / exceedingly rare / 5/08 [of '5108'] | |
| stamps (tools) on the reverse: STAD GENT / MUSEUM VOOR SCHONE KUNSTEN | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type |
mezzotints (prints)
AAT
reproductive prints AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-QA |
| Acquisition credit |
onbekend 2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-QA |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8517/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11R71
skull as symbol of 'Vanitas'
Iconclass
31A211 (human) skull Iconclass 31A235 sitting figure Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 48(+431) art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass 49C3 scholar, philosopher Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
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