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

Work Types:

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>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: ca. 1560

Creator Display:

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

General Subject:

another work (preferred)

religion and mythology

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	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-)