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Allegory with a Woman in Roman Dress on a Triumphal Chariot

Allaert ClaeszLinkedCulture matchlcp-ae87486a399c

Date: after 1520
Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Culture: Netherlands
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 202425

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Religion, piracy, and print technology intersect in Allaert Claesz’s reinvention of a detail from Marcantonio Raimondi’s Quos Ego , itself after Raphael, from the poet Virgil’s Trojan War epic. Raimondi’s print showed the goddess Venus pleading with Jupiter for her son Aeneas’s life, so that he can fulfill his destiny of founding Rome. Rather than reusing this pagan content in an exact reverse copy, Claesz has instead turned it into a Christian Triumph. God the Father and the crucified Christ appear in a formerly blank bank of clouds, and the woman’s hand stretches out to them in praise, rather than to Jupiter in supplication.

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Credit line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund

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Object type: AAT300041273

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