Caligula

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Date

1593/94

Material(s)/Technique

Kupferstich

Dimensions

355 x 238 mm

Inscriptions

oben: »C.CAESAR CALIGVLA«

unten: »Laetitiam picto poteris cognoscere vultu/Vrbi olim quanta hoc regnum ineunte fuit./Venit ad imperium multo fumantibus aris/Sanguine, et inumera per fora caede boum.// Prinicipo haud melior quisquam quo denique peior/Nemo fuit, cecidit cum sibi gentis amor./Vnam Romani te, qui truncare cupisit/Ceruicem populi, factio caedit ouans/Ægidius Sadeler S.C.M. sculp.-Titianus inuentor«

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Hollstein Dutch & Flemish, Bd. XXI, Nr. 346-370

External resources

British Museum: 1878,0713.2647