Hans Vredeman de Vries

Illustration number 1001156216
Dimensions: 650x460 pixels
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Illustration number 0000370532
Dimensions: 2060x1534 pixels
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Object information

Object category

painting

Physical connection Reference in ‘composite artworks’: artworks that are/were connected, such as alterpieces, decorative pieces incorporated in panelling, and works of art that were intended to be displayed together, such as pendants and series.

part of a series

Hans Vredeman de Vries, De burgerdeugden , , volgnummer 3

onderdeel van een reeks van acht schilderijen van Vredeman de Vries, waarvan er één verloren ging, met als onderwerp de deugden van de burgers van Danzig (mundus moralis, de mensenwereld). Voor de gehele reeks zie Rkdimages kunstwerknummer 233374

Support/medium

canvas, oil paint

Shape/dimensions

rectangle (landscape format) 140 x 200 cm

Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

inscription lower center: 'ALMA PRECUM PIETAS COELESTES FOMITE FLAMMAS/CONCIPIT ILLA SOLO FIDA POLOQUE COMES'
tweeregelig latijns opschrift, thans niet meer aanwezig; op een voorheen onder het schilderij aangebrachte cartouche; vertaling: 'De zegenbrengende vroomheid van de gebeden, trouwe begeleidster op aarde en in de hemel, ontvangt door die vurigheid hemelse vlammen'
inscription several: oratio (gebed); obedientia (gehoorzaamheid); Religio (Godsdienst); Humilitas (Nederigheid); Misericordia (Barmhartigheid); Institutio (Onderricht); Idolatra (Afgodendienst); Securitas (hier waarschijnlijk: valse zekerheid)
boven resp. onder de betreffende personificaties

Current attribution: Hans Vredeman de Vries

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: 1594-1595 (1594 - 1595)

datering op basis van vermeldingen in de stadsrekeningen (Borggrefe/Fusenig/Uppenkamp 2002)
Created in: Gdańsk

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Allegorische voorstelling van de Kerk
English title: Allegorical representation of the Church
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: Christian symbolism, allegory, church, background view of landscape, baldachin, king, virtues, personification, divine light, throne, reading, woman, child, idolatry
Iconclass code Iconclass codes and text contain specific scenes and names. An Iconclass code or notation is a code from the multi-lingual Iconclass system for subject retrieval. For more information about this system, see www.iconclass.nl.: 11M312
Piety, 'Pietas', 'Timor Dei' ~ the Three Theological Virtues
71L2713
Saphan reads the book of Law aloud to the king who tears his clothes in dismay
71I531
Solomon offers sacrifices to pagan gods (sometimes idols and/or a golden calf upon the altar)
11N
Vice, and the Seven Deadly Sins
11N3
the Seven Deadly Sins (personified)

Provenance

Collection(s): Muzeum Historycznege Miasta Gdańska (Ratusz), Gdańsk
in de Rode zaal (Ratusz Główny)

Exhibitions and literature

Literature

Drost 1938 , p. 116
Borggrefe/Fusenig/Uppenkamp 2002 , p. 325, cat. no. 168c, 327, ill. in kleur
Grzybkowska 2003 , p. 36, 81, ill. in kleur

K. Gronowicz, 'The Pictures of Hans Vredeman de Vries in the Council's Grand Chamber of the main City Town Hall in Gdansk', Bulletin van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Oudheidkundige Bond 100 (2001) nr. 1, p. 14-26, i.h.b. p. 17-18 en afb. 5
T. Fusenig, 'Netherlandish Church Pictures around 1600-their Meaning and Use', in: M. Ruszkowska-Macur [ed.], Netherlandish Artists in Gdańsk in the time of Hans Vredeman de Vries, Gdańsk 2006, p. 93-101, 169, afb. in kleur

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001156216)
BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 0000370532)

Project: Gerson Digital : Poland

Permalink: https://rkd.nl/explore/images/233490

Creation date: 2013-03-07; Last modified date: 2022-05-17

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