File:Johannes Wierix, Marten de Vos (After) - Triumphus Veritatis (The triumph of Truth).jpg

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Triumphus Veritatis (The triumph of Truth)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Johannes Wierix  (circa 1549
date QS:P,+1549–00–00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
–circa 1615
date QS:P,+1615–00–00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
)  wikidata:Q18152431
 
Johannes Wierix
Alternative names
Jan Wierix, Jan Wiericz; Johan Wiericz; Johan Wierix; Jan Wierx; Johan Wierx; Jan Wiricx; Johan Wiricx; Monogrammist IHW
Description Flemish printmaker, drawer, painter and miniaturist
Date of birth/death circa 1549
date QS:P,+1549-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
 circa 1615
date QS:P,+1615-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Location of birth/death Antwerp Antwerp
Work period between circa 1569 and circa 1615
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1569-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1615-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Antwerp Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q18152431
After Maerten de Vos  (1532–1603)  wikidata:Q555022
 
After Maerten de Vos
Alternative names
Maarten de Vos, Marten de Vos
Description Flemish painter, drawer and visual artist
Date of birth/death 1532 Edit this at Wikidata 4 December 1603 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Antwerp Antwerp
Work period between circa 1550 and circa 1603
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1603-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Rome (circa 1550-1558), Antwerp (1558-1603)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q555022
Title
Triumphus Veritatis (The triumph of Truth)
Description

Allegorical scene with Truth, a female personification, seated at centre and reading a biblical quotation while holding up a flaming lamp; flanked by Opinion as an old, bespectacled man in a hooded robe with a lamp standing on a pile of books; and Falsehood, an old hag clutching snakes and lobsters, who tramples Lies, a half-skeletal creature clutching an orb in lower right; above two putti hold a palm and wreath and a scroll lettered "Veritas vincit omnia"; after Maarten de Vos.

Print published in Antwerp by Godevaard van Haecht and Willem van Haechtx who also composed the text. Design by Maarten de Vos engraved by Johannes Wierix.
Date 1579
date QS:P571,+1579-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving
Dimensions height: 44 cm (17.3 in); width: 34.5 cm (13.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,44U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,34.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Inscriptions

Lettered in top margin, with the title and with three columns of Latin text, each two lines: "IMPVGNAT VERVM ... / ... VSQZ RELINQVVNT". Lettered in lower left on a stone "M.D.V. INV / WIL. / GODEFR. / V. HAEGHT COMP / EXCUD" and on a smaller stone "IE.W. F.".

Lettered in lower margin, with four columns of Dutch, German and French text, each six lines: "De Waerheijt houwt Gods woord, .... / ... ende de Waerheijt D'leven" and "De Warheyt helt Godts Wortt ... / ... Leben und Gwin" and "Verite se maintient ... / ... et Verite la Vie".
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1523978&partId=1
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