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Marten de Vos
Allegories of the Misfortunes of the World

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Engraving depicting a crowded banquet scene with figures feasting, drinking, and playing instruments in an arched interior, with Latin text and title 'CRAPULA ET LASCIVIA' below
Engraving with dense crosshatching depicting a scene of widespread devastation; foreground figures in various states of distress amid fallen bodies, a central winged figure gestures toward a woman nursing children at right, burning buildings at upper left, and opposing armies massing across a landscape in the background; Latin text inscribed along the bottom margin.
Engraving depicting a crowd scene with a bound, partially unclothed figure being presented before a crowned, seated ruler on a raised dais; soldiers, robed figures, and onlookers fill the middle ground; a burning building and cavalry visible in the background at left; Latin text inscribed along the bottom margin; fine cross-hatched linework throughout.
Engraving with fine crosshatching; foreground group of figures in classical robes, including a bearded elder gesturing upward, a seated central woman, and a man carrying a child; background shows crowds fleeing a burning city beneath a rainbow and radiant star; Latin text inscribed below reads "DESOLATIO SACRORVM LOCORVM."
Engraving depicting five figures in the foreground reacting with raised arms and cowering gestures to a turbulent celestial scene above, where a winged figure stands on a globe amid radiating light, angels, and falling stars. Ships, buildings, and chaos fill the middle ground. Latin text in two columns at the bottom margin, with the title "TERRIBILIS CHRISTI ADVENTVS" centered below the image. Fine cross-hatched line work throughout.
Engraving depicting a crowd of robed figures gathered on a rocky hillside at left, with a detailed landscape of a harbor city, trees, and figures on horseback in the background; Latin text inscribed along the bottom margin.
Artist or Maker
Marten de Vos
Flanders, Antwerp, 1532-1603
Printer
Johannes Sadeler I
Flanders, Brussels, 1550-circa 1600
Printer
Jerome (Hieronymus) Wierix
Flanders, Antwerp, 1553-1619
Title
Allegories of the Misfortunes of the World
Place Made
Flanders
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (each): 10 1/4 × 13 in. (26.04 × 33.02 cm) Image (each): 8 3/8 × 10 1/2 in. (21.27 × 26.67 cm)
Credit Line
Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest
Accession Number
M.88.91.371a-f
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Marie. Les Estampes des Wierix. Brussels: Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, 1978.