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ID: 700000595 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000595 | Record Type: Movable Work |
Tempus ridendi, or, Tempus flendi (engraving (print); Fontana, Giovanni Battista (printmaker, ca. 1524-1587); Published: ca. 1560; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 691228; accession number: 2006.PR.5**) | |
Note: Title from above center in the border; Inscriptions in the cartouches: "Desine tot miserae ... cuncta repente cadant" (lower left); "Nec tu Heracliti ... toleres, abstineasq decet" (lower center); "Mortalis tibi stultitiam ... concurrentes dinumeres atomos" (lower right); Born in Ala, near Verona, Fontana died in Innsbruck, where he had served as court painter to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria; The print depicts Heraclitus and Democritus standing on either side of a globe, both considering the miseries and folies of human affairs, the former weeping, the latter laughing; The scene is enclosed within a frame ornated with emblems and four inscribed cartouches. Unsigned and undated, it is listed in Fontana's catalog by Bartsch, who writes that he believes it to be the artist's invention; Watermark: Siren in circle... (cf. Briquet 13900 and 13901, dated 1533-39 and 1566). Publication: [ca. 1560]. | |
Titles: |
Tempus ridendi, or, Tempus flendi (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,U,U) |
Heraclitus and Democritus with a globe, contemplating miseries and folies of human affairs (C,U,DE,English,U,U) |
Heraclitus and Democritus. (C,U,undetermined,U,U) |
Catalog Level: item |
engraving (print) [300041340] (preferred) |
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints) |
etchings (prints) [300041365] |
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints) |
reproductive prints [300041569] |
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works)) |
prints (visual works) [300041273] |
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>) |
prints (preferred) |
Creation Date: Published: ca. 1560 |
Fontana, Giovanni Battista (printmaker, ca. 1524-1587) [preferred,GRISC] |
Fontana, Giovanni Battista (Italian painter, draftsman, and printmaker, 1524-1587) [500010237] |
publishers unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274] |
Locations: |
Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body) |
Repository Numbers: 691228; accession number: 2006.PR.5** |
Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections |
Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688 |
Display Materials: 1 print: engraving, etching |
engraving (printing process) [300053225] | |
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes) |
etching (printing process) [300053241] | |
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes) |
Dimensions: plate mark 25 x 39.4 cm, on sheet 25.3 x 39.5 cm |
another work (preferred) |
religion and mythology |
human figures |
emblems (symbols) [300123036] | |
.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by function>, symbols) (AAT) |
Democritus (Ancient Greek philosopher, ca. 460-ca. 370 BCE) [500353802] | |
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN) |
Heraclitus (Ancient Greek philosopher, ca. 540- ca. 480 BCE) [500344373] | |
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN) |
Provenance: rumbl; Purchase. |
Watermarks: Siren in circle... (cf. Briquet 13900 and 13901, dated 1533-39 and 1566). |
Inscriptions: Tempus ridendi, or, Tempus flendi |
List/Hierarchical Position: |
..... Movable Works |
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media |
Sources and Contributors: | |
Tempus ridendi, or, Tempus flendi | ........ [GRISC,VP] |
........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 691228 | |
Heraclitus and Democritus with a globe, contemplating miseries and folies of human affairs | ........ [VP] |
........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-) | |
........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules | |
Heraclitus and Democritus. | ........ [GRISC] |
........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) | |
Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP] |
....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) |
....................... Bartsch, Le peintre graveur (1803-1821) 51 |
Note: | |
English | ..... [GRISC] |
..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) | |
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