Gaius mucius scaevola biography of albert

  • In 508 B.C. when Lars Porsena of Clusium laid siege to Rome, the young Gaius Mucius Cordus crept into the Etruscan camp with the intention of assassinating him.
  • Quintus Mucius Scaevola (died 88 bc) was a prominent Roman jurist.
  • “Gaius Mucius Scaevola is a legendary Roman hero who is said to have saved Rome (c.

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    Plaquettes are small plaques made of bronze, brass, lead or precious metals. They originated in the 1440s with the desire to reproduce coins and hardstone engravings from ancient Greece and Rome. Some were made as collector’s pieces, to be viewed and displayed in private, and others for practical purposes. They also inspired designs in other media, from architecture to bookbindings. The fashion for swords decorated with elaborate pommels was at its height around 1500. This shield-shaped plaquette was almost certainly designed for this purpose. Mucius Scaevola was a hero of Roman legend who thrust his hands into flames as proof of his courage. In the Renaissance period he represented patience and constancy.

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    Object type
    TitleMucius Scaevola (generic title)
    Materials and techniques

    Bronze

    Brief description

    Plaquette, bronze, after a design by the Master I.O.F.F., Italy, ca. 1500

    Physical description

    Plaque

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    This bronze plaquette is made in the late 15th century or early 16th century bygd the so called mästare of IO. F.F.
    It depicts Gaius Mucius Scaevola and a battle subject with legend.
    The format of the plaquette was developed in the mid 15th century, arguably bygd the artist Filarete and Cardinal Pietro Barbo, later Pope Paul II, (1464-1471), in the bronze foundries he established in Rome. Pietro Barbo was a renowned collector and patron.
    The best examples of Italian plaquettes were produced between c.1485 and 1530, and were limited to huvud and nordlig Italy. In their purest form they were bygd definition light and of a storlek that could be held comfortably in the grabb for close inspection. Unlike portrait medals they were one sided. They were modest in their relief and often used rilievo schiacciato, a very shallow form of relief, to give a subtle illusion of depth, as used to the extreme for the hill-town in the backround of this plaquette. This differentiates th

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    Jacob de Wit was born in Amsterdam in 1695. He received his first training, with the painter Albert Spiers, at the early age of nine. When he was thirteen, he went to Antwerp to study at the Academy. He became a pupil of Jacob van Hal, and went on to become a member of the guild of St Luke in 1714. While in Antwerp, he also produced a series of watercolour sketches of the ceilings decorated by Rubens in the Jesuit St Carolus Borromeus Church. As the church was struck by lightning a few years later and the ceilings were lost in the fire, these works, which were later engraved, became important historical documents. The work and style of Rubens – especially his cycle for the Borromeus church – were to leave a lasting impression on de Wit.

     

    In 1715, de Wit returned to Amsterdam, where he became a much sought after artist for his decorative paintings on walls, doors and ceilings. Wealthy p

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