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Arcus Ferdinandini Pars Posterior   (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 Ferdinandini Pars Posterior
Description
English: Plate 28: The Arch of Ferdinand: Rear Face; two-tiered structure with lower storey articulated by six columns framing three arches and continued on upper storey with pillasters and statues of male personifications framing a kind of painted triptych; principal picture above central arch represents the Triumph of Prince Ferdinand as he returns from battle in a chariot drawn by horses and surrounded by soldiers bearing the spoils of war and bound prisoners and Victory flying behind crowning him with a laurel wreath; two lateral paintings form a quasi-triptych with the centerpiece, on the left Royal Liberty ('Liberalitas Regis') and on the right Royal Providence ('Providentia Regis'); on either side of the centrepiece stand statues of Honour and Virtue; flanking the second storey are putti holding garlands with coats of arms and male figures bearing torches; above the main picture are the royal arms of Spain guarded by two lions; crowning the pediment is Lucifer as the morning star riding a winged horse and holding aloft a scroll; on either side of the gable are two winged and laureated Victories holding up inscribed shields; at left and right are two tree trunks laden with trophies and with bound captives kneeling at their bases, while the outermost figures are winged personifications of Fame blowing trumpets; the medallions above the smaller portals portray Nobilitas and Iuventas (goddess of youth); 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: 534 millimetres (plate-mark)
Height: 649 millimetres (sheet)
Width: 541 millimetres
Width: 543 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1884,0112.59
Notes

One of a series of forty-three plates illustrating Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus"; for further comments see 1884,0112.31. This is the rear, or western, face of the Ferdinandine Arch; for the front face see 1884,0112.57. The arch commemorates the military victory of Prince Ferdinand his cousin, Ferdinand IV, King of Hungary, at Nördlingen in 1634. It stood at the intersection of the Lange Nieuwstraat and the Markgravestraat. Erected on the same monumental scale as the arch dedicated to Ferdinand's brother, Philip IV (1884,0112.43), it has three openings for the procession to pass and interconnected transverse passageways. Construction of the arch was contracted to Jan Wandelaers and painting of the decoration to Caspar van den Hoecke and his son Jan van den Hoecke.

Lit: John Rupert Martin, The Decorations for the Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi, Corpus Rubenianum XVI, London, 1972, pp. 153-162.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1884-0112-59
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