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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.
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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.

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet: 11 15/16 × 16 5/16 in. (30.4 × 41.5 cm) Plate: 7 5/16 × 10 1/16 in. (18.5 × 25.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Carolyn H. Specht Gift and Charles Z. Offin Fund, 2017

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

1634–1718Papal States

Comment on works: History; Religious