De Bataafse Opstand
1611
Medium
etching
Dimensions
210; 167
About this artwork
Ronde allegorische voorstelling waarin personificaties Roma en Batavia op het slagveld elkaar de hand schudden. Titelprent voor 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. Zonder tekst op achterzijde.
About the Artist
Antonio Tempesta · 1555–1630
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...