Name: Rare-Antique Print-SENECA-PORTRAIT-Galle-Lipsius-1605
SKU: PCO-29216
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Rare-Antique Print-SENECA-PORTRAIT-Galle-Lipsius-1605

€225.00

‘L. SENECA IMAGO.’

– Original antique print showing a portrait of the Roman philopsopher Seneca. Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC ? 65 AD), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature (source wikipedia).

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Original antique print showing a portrait of the Roman philopsopher Seneca. Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC ? 65 AD), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature (source wikipedia).

Made by Probably Theodoor Galle after Rubens.

Medium: Engraviing on hand laid paper.

Sheet size: 19 x 24.5 cm (7.48 x 9.65 inch). Image size: 14.5 x 19.5 cm. (5.71 x 7.68 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Short margins. Raer latin text and remains of paper from attachment. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

SENECA-PORTRAIT | RB-A8-05

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From: ANNAEI SENECA PHILOSOPHI OPERA. L. Senec? Imago, from Justus Lipsius, Lucius Anaeus L. Annaei Seneca philosophi opera, qvae exstant omnia. Illustrated page, 1605 or 1615. .

Biography engraver: Theodoor Galle (1571-1633) was a Flemish engraver from Antwerp, son of Philips Galle and brother of Cornelis I. He took over the workshop of his father in 1612. He married the daughter of the publisher Jan Moretus.