The Triumph of Time (recto); Sketch of a Stag (verso)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Triumph of Time (recto); Sketch of a Stag (verso)

Style of Dirk Vellert

Date
c. 1517
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper
Culture
Netherlands
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

This drawing relates to a stained-glass roundel by Dirk Vellert that survives today in Brussels. Since the subject belongs to a larger series of triumphs made popular by 14th-century poet Petrarch, it is likely that the drawing was also one of a series, which included not only the Triumph of Time, but also the Triumphs of Love, Fame, Death, and Chastity. Here Time is represented by the figure of an older man with crutches, who is crowned by an hourglass.

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Object type
AAT300033973

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