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Print made by: Theodoor van Thulden

After: Peter Paul Rubens
Published by: Theodoor van Thulden
Title
print, book-illustration
Description
English: Plate 17: Rudolph I and Albert I with Sol and Minerva; at centre stands the statue of Rudolph I, balancing his broadsword and holding an orb surmounted by a cross; at the far right stands the statue of the son of Rudolph I, Albert I, shown in full armour and raising his sword and shield bearing the imperial double-headed eagle; between the emperors stands Minerva dressed in armour and bearing her spear and shield with the Gorgon's head; at far left is the figure of Sol holding his lyre, a bow around which winds a serpent, and quiver of arrows at his side, with sun-rays encircling his head; unsigned; 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: 307 millimetres (plate-mark)
Height: 649 millimetres (sheet)
Width: 384 millimetres
Width: 543 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1884,0112.48
Notes

One of a series of forty-three plates illustrating Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus"; for additional comments see 1884,0112.31. For the panoramic view of the portico see 1884,0112.47. Rudolph I, the founder of the Hapsburg dynasty, was crowned German king in 1273 and he is shown here wearing a laurel crown and an ermine robe over a full suit of armour. His son, Albert I, was elected German king in 1298 after he defeated his rival Adolph of Nassau on the battelfield. Van Thulden's etching relates to his drawing in the collection of E. Wolf (New York), which depicts the figures of Rudolph I, Pallas, and Albert I. The drawing appears to be Van Thulden's intermediary sketch after Rubens' initial oil sketches for the statues (now in the Hermitage in Leningrad). The actual gilded stone statues of the gallery were contracted to five sculptors, including Huibrecht van den Eynden and Sebastiaan de Neve, and the gilder Louis Vergouwen and his assistants. They stood over life-size at two and a half metres in height. After the Entry they were cleaned and presented to Ferdinand as a gift. Formerly in the Palace in Brussels, they were all destroyed by fire in 1731.

Lit.: John Rupert Martin, The Decorations for the Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi, Corpus Rubenianum XVI, London, 1972, pp. 110-112; cats. 22, 22a, 23, 23a; figs. 45-46, 60.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1884-0112-48
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