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| Wenceslaus Hollar Self-portrait, age 40 1647 etching British Museum |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar Title-page for a set of Hollar's prints, published at Antwerp 1645 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar after Leonardo da Vinci Twelve caricature heads 1640s etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
BRONZE AGE
Then formed our Father Jove a third Descent;
Whose Age was brazen; clearly different
From that of Silver. All the Mortals there,
Of wilde Ashe fashioned; stubborne and austere;
Whose Mindes the harmefull facts of Mars affected;
And Petulant Injurie. All Meates rejected,
Of Naturall fruits, and Hearbs. And these were They,
That first began that Table Cruelty,
Of slaughtering Beasts; And therefore grew they fierce;
And not to be indur'd, in their Commerce.
Their ruthless Mindes in Adamant were cut;
Their strengths were dismall; And their shoulders put
Inaccessible hands out, over all
Their brawny limbs, armed with a brazen wall.
Their Houses all were brazen; All of Brasse,
Their working Instruments; for blacke Iron was
As yet unknowne: And, these (their owne lives ending;
The vast, and cold-sad house of hell-descending)
No grace had in their ends: But though they were
Never so powrefull; and enforcing feare;
Blacke Death reduc't their Greatnes in their spight,
T'a little Roome; And stopt their chearefull light.
– from Works and Days by Hesiod (ca. 700 BC) translated into English by George Chapman (1618)
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| Wenceslaus Hollar after Adam Elsheimer Satyr dining with farmer 1644 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar after Adam Elsheimer Recognition of Ceres 1646 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar after Titian Portrait of Pietro Aretino ca. 1649 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar after Titian Portrait of Daniele Barbaro ca. 1650 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar after Anthony van Dyck Portrait of Elizabeth Harvey 1646 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar Portrait of John Price, Englishman 1644 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar after Anthony van Dyck Portrait of Margaret Lemon (mistress of painter Anthony van Dyck) 1646 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar View of Richmond 1648 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar View of Covent Garden, London ca. 1647 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar Views of London before and after the Great Fire 1666 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar Ships in a heavy sea 1665 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |