Adriaen van de Vennebspr_5702
- Active
- 's-Gravenhage - Range: 1625-1635
- Occupation
- painter - Range: 1625-1634; graphic artist - Range: 1625-1628
- Address
- de Fluweele-burghwal, t'ende de Poten [1625-1628]; Turf-Marct (de [1634-1635]
- PPN
- 075562030
- CNI
- CNI 00013421
Devices used (3)
A woman with wings at the shoulder blowing a trumpet (Fame) holding reins to which a printer and an engraver are attached; three coats of arms: one showing a quill and a laurel, another the tools of a printer (ink-ball)
Three men at work in a printing office: one is rolling ink-balls, two are operating presses; a barrel on the floor; elaborate frame decorated with personifications of Painting (woman with laurel wreath, palette and maulstick) and Poetry (woman with laurel wreath, quill and folded paper), putti, coats of arms
Apollo pursuing the nymph Daphne; she is changing into a tree; this scene is framed by the personifications of Poetry (a woman with a laurel wreath, a quill and a sheet of paper) and Painting (woman with a wreath, a palette and brushes), a coat of arms of Middelburg between two putti holding an inscribed banderole, books and foliage