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Bellona Leading the Armies of the Emperor against the Turks
Bartholomeus Spranger1600
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The central, striding figure, Bellona (the Roman goddess of war), is said to be either the sister or the wife of Mars, god of war. The double-headed eagle of the Hapsburgs appears on the flag behind her. Born in Amsterdam, Jan Muller probably learned engraving from his father, Harman Muller, a printmaker and publisher. He traveled to Italy in the 1590s and presumably stopped in Prague along the way. There he made prints based on designs by artists employed at the Hapsburg court, including Bartholomeaus Spranger (1546–1611).
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- Title: Bellona Leading the Armies of the Emperor against the Turks
- Creator: Jan Muller (Dutch, 1571-1628), Bartholomaeus Spranger (Flemish, 1546-1611)
- Date Created: 1600
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 70.8 x 51.2 cm (27 7/8 x 20 3/16 in.); Image: 66.2 x 50.3 cm (26 1/16 x 19 13/16 in.)
- Provenance: purchased from (Hill-Stone, Inc., N.Y.)
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.142
- Medium: engraving (printed from two plates)
- State of work: I/II
- Inscriptions: lower left, in plate: B. Sprangers invent. / Ioan.Muller.sculp. ; across bottom, in plate: Serenissimo Principi Domino D[n?]o MATHIÆ, Archiduci Austriæ, Duci Burgundiæ, Stiriæ, Carinthiæ, Carniolæ et Wirtembergæ etc. Comiti Tirolis etc. Nec non / Generali et supremo totius Christiani exercitûs contrà Turcas Duci ac Præfecto foelicissimo, D{n?]o suo clementissimo, Bartholomæus Spranger. S.C.M.Pictor D.S. [in engraved script] ; across bottom, in plate: En Bellona ciet turmas procùl ære canôro, / Spicula Marte vibrat dextro, succinctaque flagris / Bella fremit, fremebunda parat, gaudetque paratis. / Nec mora, feruet opus, Iouis ales prælia miscet / Quid dubitet? Bona caussa facit. Caducifer inquit: / Macte animis: caussarum sum Deus ipse bonarum. / Exere tu modò vim facto agmine, Romula pubes. / Terrificum Turcis fulmen, victoria vobis / Nube volans præsto est: nihil impedit, exere vires. / Non ergò differ pacis, Germania, sedes: / Præsidio maiore iuua Iouis alitis ausus. / Sic sternes Mahomet: victrix tua causa triumphet. ; lower right, in plate: Harman. Muller. excud. / Anº 1600. ; VERSO, lower left, in graphite: 78) ; lower right, in graphite: 289/75 ; lower right, in graphite: H 50 I/II ; lower right, in graphite: l- ; lower right, in graphite: 34
- Department: Prints
- Culture: Netherlands, early 17th Century
- Credit Line: Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund
- Collection: PR - Engraving
- Accession Number: 1985.142
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