Title-page with title written in a rectangle at centre, surrounded by an allegorical scene representing 'the revival of the antique', a bust of a veiled personification ('antiquity') with a phoenix at top centre, personifications of time and death in top right corner hurling figures representing several monarchies (rome, macedonia, media, persia) into a cave ('time'), while mercury on left side and pulling broken statues of greek and roman leaders out of the cave, hercules above him and handing a pot with coins to a slave, athena in top left corner; after peter paul rubens; title to hubert goltzius' "romanae et graecae antiquitatis monumenta" (antwerp: 1645)
engraving. Date: circa 1645. Dimensions: Height: 312 mm (trimmed); Width: 201 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Hubert Goltzius. Collection: British Museum. Print, title-page (BM 1858,0417.1244)
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