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Batavorum cum Romanis Bellum, à Corn. Tacito / De Batavische Oft Oude Hollandtsche Oorloghe teghen de Romeynen

Batavorum cum Romanis Bellum, à Corn. Tacito / De Batavische Oft Oude Hollandtsche Oorloghe teghen de Romeynen by Antonio Tempesta

Medium

etching

Dimensions

210; 167

About this artwork

Claudius Civilis wordt gevangengenomen door de Romeinen en zijn broer Paulus wordt onthoofd. Prent nummer 3 in de serie prenten over de Bataafse Opstand: Batavorum cum Romanis bellum / à Corn. Tacito lib. IV & V. : Hist. olim descriptum, figuris nunc aeneis expressum, auctore Othone Vaenio Lugdunobatava = De Batavische oft oude Hollandtsche oorloghe teghen de Romeynen. Otto Vaenius, Antwerpen 1612. Onderaan twee verzen van vier regels in het Nederlands en in het Latijn. Zonder tekst op achterzij...

About the Artist

Antonio Tempesta · 15551630

Antonio Tempesta (1555–1630), known as 'Il Tempestino,' was a Florentine painter and printmaker whose extraordinary output of approximately 1,700 etchings made him one of the most influential printmakers of the early Baroque period. Born in Florence and trained under Santi di Tito and the Flemish master Joannes Stradanus, he enrolled in the Accademia del Disegno in 1576 before relocating to Rome i...

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