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Hans Holbein the Younger: English: Marginal illustration for Erasmus' In praise of Folly'   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Hans Holbein the Younger  (1497/1498–1543)  wikidata:Q48319 s:it:Autore:Hans Holbein il Giovane q:it:Hans Holbein il Giovane
 
Hans Holbein the Younger
Alternative names
Hans Holbein der Jüngere, Hans Holbein
Description -German painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 1497 or 1498
date QS:P,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1498-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
between 7 October 1543 and 29 November 1543
date QS:P,+1543-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1543-10-07T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1543-11-29T00:00:00Z/11
Location of birth/death Augsburg Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Basel (1515-1526), Lucerne (1515-1526), Venice (1515), Bologna (1515), Florence (1515), Rome (1515), Venice (1517-1518), Bologna (1517-1518), Florence (1517-1518), Rome (1517-1518), London (1526-1528), Basel (1528-1532), London (1532-1543)
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artist QS:P170,Q48319
Title
English: Marginal illustration for Erasmus' In praise of Folly'
Description
English: Marginal illustration for Erasmus' In praise of Folly'. Text:
  [Handwritten Latin text at the left]
  Vere nobiles qui.
  [Illustration]
  Mirum infamiae ge
  nois [?] describit, &
  singulare.
  Nireus.
  
  [Printed Latin text left column, including a citation of Homer, Ilias 2, 672-675 
  using μ instead of ν sometimes? Translation: Nireus, the son of Aglaia and king Charopos, 
  the handsomest man of the Greeks come under Ilias [Troy] after the son of Peleus
  but he was a weakling]
  Quoquis sunt em [?abbreviation] ve
  re nobiles, qui gene/
  ris claritati, doctrina
  moribusque respondent.
  Sed eos, qui vita, cae/
  terisque bonis rebus,
  nihilo antecellunt in
  fimam plaebem aut quod
  saepe videmus, vincunt
  utrijs [?] Nireus) Ni/
  reum pro formosissi/
  mo posuit, ut Thersitem/
  turpissimum Graecoque,
  ita hunc post Achillem,
  formosissimum fecit
  quem sic describit Ili
  ados Νιρευς αγλαι/
  νε υιος, χαροποιο τ'
  ανακτος Νιρευς, ος
  καλλιστος ανηρ υπο Ι
  λιομ ηλθε των αλλων
  Δαναων μετ' ανυμο
  να Πηλειωνα Aλλ αλα
  παδνος ε[?ην] .1.  Filius 
  Aglaies Nireus regis
  Charopique [?]. Nireus,
  [?] Troiam venit formo
  sior alter Graiorum
  haud ullus, si invictum
  
  [Printed Latin text by Erasmus right column, Morias Encomion. Stultitiae laudatio, XLII (42),
  with supplemented text found by searching with Google for "Erasmus Nireus Senecam", result:
books.google.nl editio castigatissimo. London & venit Parisiis apud Barbou, via Mathurinensium. 1765
5 July 2020.]
  uno au[t altero genere loquor, quasi ve]
  ro non [passim haec philautia plurimos]
  ubique m[iris modis felicissimos efficiat?]
  Cum hic [quavis simia deformior, sibi pla]
  ne Nireu[s videtur; alius simul atque treis]
  lineas ci[rcino duxerit, prorsum Euclidem]
  sese puta[t; hic ονος προς λυραν, et quo dete]
  rius nec [ille sonat, quo mordetur gallina]
  marito, [tamen altero Hermogenem esse]
  se credit, [Est autem illud longe suavissimum]
  insaniae [genus, quo nonnulli quicquid ul]
  li suorum [dotis adest, eo non aliter atque suo]
  gloriant[ur. Qualis erat ille bis beatus apud]
  Senecam [dives qui narrataturus historio]
  lam quam[piam servos, ad manum habe]
  bat, qui n[omina suggererent, non dubi]
  taturus [vel in pugilum certamen descende]
  re, homo [alioque adeo imbecillus, ut vix
  viveret [hac re fretus, quod multos habe]
  ret domi [fervos egregie robustos. Por]
  ro de art[tium professoribus, quid attinet commemorare?...]
Date 1515
date QS:P571,+1515-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Pen and black ink
institution QS:P195,Q194626
Source/Photographer Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork
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Marginal drawing of Folly by Hans Holbein in the first edition of Erasmus's Praise of Folly, 1515

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