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Arcus Ad. D. Michaelis   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Theodoor van Thulden

After: Peter Paul Rubens
Published by: Theodoor van Thulden
Title
Arcus Ad. D. Michaelis
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English: Plate 37: The Arch at St Michael's: The Front Face: arch with a single large portal framed by pairs of columns of Composite order; at centre, filling the tympanum is a large canvas representing the Choice of Hercules at the moment he decides to follow the path of virtue; at the centre of the picture the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand appears in the guise of Hercules Prodicius, wearing a lion's skin and holding his club in the company of Minerva at right, and Venus, Cupid and Bacchus at left, with a cannon and other military implements in the foreground; on the hilltop in the background stand the temples of Virtue and Honour, guarded by hybrid beasts; surmounted by ornate acroterion with the coat-of-arms of Ferdinand, a prince's crown, and cardinal's hat, topped by laurel and crossed palms encircled by a wreath; at either banners fly, with two flaming cannonballs below; winged Victories at right and left bear military standards with the monograms for Philip and Ferdinand; flanking the pediment are two sphinxes; after Peter Paul Rubens; illustration for Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus" (Antwerp, 1641)
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Depicted people Illustration to: Gaspar Gevaerts
Date 1635-1641 (c.)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 483 millimetres (plate-mark)
Height: 649 millimetres (sheet)
Width: 322 millimetres
Width: 543 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1884,0112.68
Notes

One of a series of forty-three plates illustrating Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus"; for further comments see 1884,0112.31. The arch was erected along Sint-Michielsstraat before the Abbey of St Michael's to designate the terminal point of the Joyous Entry. The arch itself is smaller and simpler than the preceeding ones, measuring only 13 metres in height. Hendrick Huysmans was contracted to construct the arch and two artists, David Ryckaert and Jan van Eyck, were engaged to execute the painted decorations of both façades of the arch. The decorations of the front face extol the virtues of the Prince. For comments on the rear face of the arch see 1884,0112.70.

Lit: John Rupert Martin, The Decorations for the Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi, Corpus Rubenianum XVI, London, 1972, pp. 203-211.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1884-0112-68
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