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Source Description
In <em>Victory Surrounded by Prisoners and Trophies, </em>Frans Floris portrayed a standing female figure in the center, the personification of Victory, surrounded by a multitude of nudes and trophies (or spoils of war), which she has vanquished. The nudes were inspired by Roman friezes as well as figures that Floris had studied on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes during an extended trip to Italy in the 1540s. The etching is based on a painted composition (now lost) that Floris made a few years earlier to adorn a triumphal arch, one of numerous ephemeral arches featured in festive decorations throughout the city mounted for the visit of Charles V and the future Philip II in 1549.
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Document identity
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393233
label
Victory Surrounded by Prisoners and Trophies
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print
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1
Source metadata
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393233
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print
title
Victory Surrounded by Prisoners and Trophies
description
In <em>Victory Surrounded by Prisoners and Trophies, </em>Frans Floris portrayed a standing female figure in the center, the personification of Victory, surrounded by a multitude of nudes and trophies (or spoils of war), which she has vanquished. The nudes were inspired by Roman friezes as well as figures that Floris had studied on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes during an extended trip to Italy in the 1540s. The etching is based on a painted composition (now lost) that Floris made a few years earlier to adorn a triumphal arch, one of numerous ephemeral arches featured in festive decorations throughout the city mounted for the visit of Charles V and the future Philip II in 1549.
date
1552
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q117244823
creators
393230
68240
genreSpecific
Print
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Image: 31.7 x 44 cm (12 1/2 x 17 5/16 in.); Sheet: 31.7 x 44 cm (12 1/2 x 17 5/16 in.)
cul
Netherlands, 16th century
accession
2020.224
Source extras
tec
etching with engraving
tombstone
Victory Surrounded by Prisoners and Trophies, 1552. Frans Floris the Elder (Flemish, 1509–1570), published by Hieronymus Cock. Etching with engraving; image: 31.7 x 44 cm (12 1/2 x 17 5/16 in.); sheet: 31.7 x 44 cm (12 1/2 x 17 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt Endowment Fund, 2020.224
collection
PR - Etching
stateOfTheWork
Hollstein 4; The New Hollstein 156 second state (of three)
inscriptions
inscription
Unidentified collector’s mark (Lugt 4073), verso
inscription
3 illegible graphite inscriptions, verso
inscription
In plate, in image lower left recto: “Fra floris fecit / Cock excudubat / 1552”
inscription
Latin verses below image recto: “Haec tibi promisa….de mole Superba.”
didYouKnow
This is the only etching that the Northern Renaissance painter Frans Floris ever made.
citations
citation
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, and Konrad Oberhuber. Zwischen Renaissance und Barock. Das Zeitalter von Bruegel und Bellange. 1967.
page_number
no. 102
citation
Velde, C van de. <em>Frans Floris 1519/20–1570): Leven en Werken</em>, Brussels 1975.
page_number
no. 30
citation
Jacoby, Joachim W., et al. The New Hollstein: German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. 1996.
citation
Cole, Michael Wayne. The Early Modern Painter-Etcher. University Park, Penn: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
page_number
no. 7
citation
Grieken, Joris van, Ger Luijten, and Jan van der Stock. Hieronymus Cock: The Renaissance in Print. Brussels, Belgium: Mercatorfonds, 2013.
page_number
no. 86
citation
Jenkins, Catherine, et al. The renaissance of etching. 2019.
page_number
no. 119
catalogueRaisonne
Hollstein 4
creditline
Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt Endowment Fund
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2026-05-29 08:58:43.546000
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393233
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Prints
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PR - Etching
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etching with engraving
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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