#allegorical — Public Fediverse posts
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#Allegorical figures of #plenty: #Flora,# Ceres, #Ops (abundance) and #Pales (goddess of shepherds, here described as rustica cum caseo - with cheese!) All playing #cornetti
To the right, the #elemental figures of Ignis (fire) and Aer (air) - the other two #elements are on the following page.
From the #16thCentury #pageantbook showing the 8 #pageants held for the Christening of Princess Elisabeth of Hesse in 1596.
Bavarian State Library: Cod.icon. 340.#earlymusic @earlymusic #earlymodern @earlymodern #cheese #histodon #histodons @histodons @histodon #cornet #cornetto #cornett #allegory #mythology #latin
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About https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/36284--paulina-de-nijs/collections/reformatie-contrareformatie (Screenshot 2022-11-24): The page shows a detail of the of a 1674 print which depicts William III (#WilliamOfOrange) as well as the #allegorical figures for “#religion” and “#liberty”, a “#LiberumBelgium” motive. In the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum the object number is RP-P-OB-82.399.
But Henry Holiday might have seen a similar print in the British Museum (now BM Satires 1047, reg.no.: 1868,0808.3286).