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LastDodo number
5383465
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
PETRUS SCRIVERIUS. LARE SECRETO.
Year
1613
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Dimensions
15,6 x 10,5
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Portrait bust to the left inside oval of Petrus Scriverius (1576-1660). Scriverius was a philologist, history writer and poet. He was friends with, among others, Janus Dousa and Josephus Justus Scaliger. Scaliger was also his teacher. Scriverius went blind in 1650. Copper engraving, by Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg (1580-1612). Used as an illustration in: J. Meursius. "Illustris Academia Lugd-Batava (...)", Leiden 1613. Source: National Office for Art History Documentation, 2015.

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