Herman_Posthumus_001.jpg
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Summary
English: Time Destroyer of All Things
Latina: Tempus Edax Rerum (![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Artist |
Herman Posthumus
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Title |
English:
Time Destroyer of All Things
Latina:
Tempus Edax Rerum
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Object type |
painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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Date |
1536
date QS:P571,+1536-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium |
oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions |
height: 96 cm (37.7 in); width: 142 cm (55.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,96U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,142U174728
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Collection |
Deutsch:
Sammlungen des Fürsten von und zu Liechtenstein
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Current location | |
Notes |
English:
Ovid
's
Metamorphoses
Book XV, l. 234: Time, Devourer of [All] Things, and you, awful Old Age, you destroy everything...
Ruth Olitsky Rubinstein, "'Tempus Edax Rerum': A Newly Discovered Painting by Hermannus Posthumus" , Burlington Magazine , Vol. 127, No. 988, July 1985, pp. 425–436.
Latina:
Ovidii Metamorphoseon XV libro ccxxxiv lineam: TEMPVS EDAX RE- / RVM TVQVE INVI- / DIOSA VETVSTAS / O[MN]IA DESTRVITIS...
Deutsch:
Phantastische Ruinenlandschaft bez.: Herman posthum pingeb 1.5.3.6.
auf der Tafel über dem Sarkophag bez. Inv.-Nr. GE 740 |
Source/Photographer |
Licensing
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Annotations
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Tiber with Romulus and Remus
Statue of Nile River
Menologium Rusticum Vallense
RVM TVQVE INVI
DIOSA VETVSTAS
O[MN]IA DESTRVITIS
Ovid's Metamorphosis , Book XV, ll. 234–235
Time Devourer of Everything and Hateful Old Age, You Destroy All Things ...
mobile inkpot
Herman Posthumus, the artist, shown measuring the column base for inclusion in the sketch at his feet
sketchpad
1.5.3.6.
Herman[us] Posthum[us] pinge[ba]t
Herman Posthumus painted [me/this].