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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

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Allegorical Figures of Experience and Time

An allegory relating to the fortunes of the Turks, a winged figure probably representing Time stands on a fallen Turk while sharpening a blade on a wheel inscribed with the continents that is being turned by a semi-dressed figure, at right the city of Vardino (northwest Romania near the Hungarian border) that was held by the Turks from 1660 to 1692.

Buda conquered by the Austrians

Allegorical Figures of Experience and Time

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli·1677·Open artwork page →