print; title-page

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Object Type: print; title-page
Museum number: 1895,1031.397
Description: Title-page with title written in a rectangle placed in a portico of a classical building with columns, ovals with busts of Hercules and Ulysses and Pallas Athene at top, Zeno and Cleanthes flanking the title, medallions with busts of Seneca and Epictetus flanking a shield with personifications of Honour and Virtue at bottom; bust of Seneca retouched and oil-lamp next to Epictetus removed; bust of Seneca after Rubens (?); title to second edition of Justus Lipsius' "L. Annaei Senecae Philosophi Opera" (Antwerp: 1615). 1605 but heavily retouched for second edition Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Theodoor Galle; After: Peter Paul Rubens (bust of Seneca); Published by: Jan Moretus I (his widow and sons)
School/style
Production date: 1605 (published 1615)
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
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Dimensions: Height: 318 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 192 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This is the title-page of the second edition of Justus Lipsius' book on the life and works of the Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca. It was firstly published in Antwerp by Plantin-Moretus in 1605. Rubens corrected the bust showing Seneca himself in the second edition. For another impression of this plate (before retouchings) see also 1857,0314.12. For the title-page of the fourth edition (1652) see 1872,1012.5440. Lit.: F. de Nave, Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) en het Plantijnse Huis, Publicaties van het Museum Plantin-Moretus en het Stedelijk Prentenkabinet nr.37, Antwerp, 1997, cat.no.27.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (undescribed); Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (203.64); Corpus Rubenianum XXI / Rubens. Book Illustrations and Title Pages (30-32)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: philosopher; classical deity
Associated names: Illustration to: Justus Lipsius; Representation of: Herakles/Hercules; Representation of: Athena/Minerva; Representation of: Odysseus/Ulysses; Representation of: Zeno the Stoic; Representation of: Cleanthes; Representation of: Seneca the Younger; Representation of: Epictetus
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1895
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1895,1031.397

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