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"inscription": "around portrait, in plate: PETRVS BRVEGEL EX AMBIVARITIS BELGA PICTOR AEVI HVIVS INTER PRINCIPES ; lower left, in plate: Bar. Sprangers Inventor. ; across bottom, in plate: Ars Naturam vicerat, nisi et Ars per Naturam esset: Natura Artem \u00e6ternarat, nisi et Natur\u00e6 nihil \u00e6terni esset. Alumnus Altricem / \u00e6mulatus, qu\u00e2 licuit adsecutus est: Altrix Aemulum alumnata, qu\u00e2 datum prosecuta est. apag\u00e8 liuor, Artem Natur\u00e6, Natur\u00e6 foedus / sociat: apag\u00e8 dolor, Naturam Arti, artis foetus sufficit. Viuit in Arte Natura, quam Patris manus expressit: Viuit in Natur\u00e2 Arts, quam Fili / Genius adsequitur. illam, Natur\u00e2 ambiente Virgo Tritonis, Heroum choris inseruit: hunc, Arte prensante Maj\u00e2natus Olifer, deses flumen / redixit. red\u00e1ccende facem Lucifuge, inique facis nisi Patrem in Filio noscis: adtolle tubam Terrigena, nihil agis nisi uterque tibi \u00dfuperstes est / Patrem Filio, humc in illo, sibi utrumque seculis; Artis, Natur\u00e6 / Posteritatis, cultor, admirator, amator Sac. C\u00e6s. Mai. sculptor / Egidius Sadeler, exhibet. [infinity symbol] . IC[reversed]C . VI .",
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"title": "Design and Decoration: Ornament Prints",
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"description": "Around 1600, three decades after the death of artist Pieter Bruegel (about 1525-1569), a renewed interest in his work sparked the so-called Bruegel Renaissance. Admired for his scenes of everyday life and his realistic landscapes, he was highly praised for faithfully following nature. Appropriately, the inscription on Sadeler's print is a lengthy discussion about the imitation of nature, a matter of great interest to artists at the time. Bruegel is surrounded by Minerva and Mercury (who here personify Art and Eloquence, respectively) and a composite figure of Fortune and Fame. The cherub bearing the skull and torch at bottom is probably Thanatos, a classical symbol of death. He bows to mourn the artist, but as the still-flaming torch indicates, Bruegel's genius and fame are immortal.",
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