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Hans Holbein the Younger: English: Marginal illustration for Erasmus' In praise of Folly' ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q48319 |
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English: Marginal illustration for Erasmus' In praise of Folly' |
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English: Marginal illustration for Erasmus' In praise of Folly'. Text:
[Handwritten Latin text at the left] Vere nobiles qui. [Illustration] Mirum infamiae ge nois [?] describit, & singulare. Nireus. [Printed Latin text left column, including a citation of Homer, Ilias 2, 672-675 using μ instead of ν sometimes? Translation: Nireus, the son of Aglaia and king Charopos, the handsomest man of the Greeks come under Ilias [Troy] after the son of Peleus but he was a weakling] Quoquis sunt em [?abbreviation] ve re nobiles, qui gene/ ris claritati, doctrina moribusque respondent. Sed eos, qui vita, cae/ terisque bonis rebus, nihilo antecellunt in fimam plaebem aut quod saepe videmus, vincunt utrijs [?] Nireus) Ni/ reum pro formosissi/ mo posuit, ut Thersitem/ turpissimum Graecoque, ita hunc post Achillem, formosissimum fecit quem sic describit Ili ados Νιρευς αγλαι/ νε υιος, χαροποιο τ' ανακτος Νιρευς, ος καλλιστος ανηρ υπο Ι λιομ ηλθε των αλλων Δαναων μετ' ανυμο να Πηλειωνα Aλλ αλα παδνος ε[?ην] .1. Filius Aglaies Nireus regis Charopique [?]. Nireus, [?] Troiam venit formo sior alter Graiorum haud ullus, si invictum [Printed Latin text by Erasmus right column, Morias Encomion. Stultitiae laudatio, XLII (42), with supplemented text found by searching with Google for "Erasmus Nireus Senecam", result:books.google.nl editio castigatissimo. London & venit Parisiis apud Barbou, via Mathurinensium. 1765 5 July 2020.] uno au[t altero genere loquor, quasi ve] ro non [passim haec philautia plurimos] ubique m[iris modis felicissimos efficiat?] Cum hic [quavis simia deformior, sibi pla] ne Nireu[s videtur; alius simul atque treis] lineas ci[rcino duxerit, prorsum Euclidem] sese puta[t; hic ονος προς λυραν, et quo dete] rius nec [ille sonat, quo mordetur gallina] marito, [tamen altero Hermogenem esse] se credit, [Est autem illud longe suavissimum] insaniae [genus, quo nonnulli quicquid ul] li suorum [dotis adest, eo non aliter atque suo] gloriant[ur. Qualis erat ille bis beatus apud] Senecam [dives qui narrataturus historio] lam quam[piam servos, ad manum habe] bat, qui n[omina suggererent, non dubi] taturus [vel in pugilum certamen descende] re, homo [alioque adeo imbecillus, ut vix viveret [hac re fretus, quod multos habe] ret domi [fervos egregie robustos. Por] ro de art[tium professoribus, quid attinet commemorare?...] |
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1515 date QS:P571,+1515-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | Pen and black ink | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q194626 |
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Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork reference_wga QS:P973,"http://www.wga.hu/html/h/holbein/hans_y/2drawing/1530/01folly2.html" |
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JPEG file comment | HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
(b. 1497, Augsburg, d. 1543, London) Marginal illustration for Erasmus' In praise of Folly' 1515 Pen and black ink Kupferstichkabinett, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basle Despite his youth, Holbein was immediately accepted into humanist circles in Basle. He made his artistic debut with some informal marginal drawings that he did in a first edition of Erasmus's Praise of Folly of 1515, which later belonged to Erasmus himself. These are remarkable for their wit, humanity and instinctive sympathy with the spirit of Erasmus's irony.
Author: HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Title: Marginal illustration for Erasmus' In praise of Folly' Time-line: 1501-1550 School: German Form: graphics Type: other |
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