Nero

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Date

1593/94

Material(s)/Technique

Kupferstich

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340 x 237 mm

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oben: »NERO CLAUDIVS CAESAR «

unten: »VI. Caesarea Nero progeniem stirpis vltima claudens/Nequitiae cumulum fecit, et ille modum./Igne solum patrium, ferroque abolere parentem,/Et genus omne suum, se quoque nixus erat.//Segnitie euicta potuit se perdere tandem,/Et matrem, quibus et vita adimenda fuit:/At patriam haud potuit, matremque ex ignibus eius/Hic nouus Æneas sustulit ante suam./Ægidius Sadeler S.C.M. sculp.-Titianus Inuentor-Marcus Sadeler exc.«

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Hollstein Dutch & Flemish 346-370

External resources

British Museum: 1878,0713.2649