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Arcus Ferdinandini Pars Anterior   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Theodoor van Thulden

After: Peter Paul Rubens
Published by: Theodoor van Thulden
Title
Arcus Ferdinandini Pars Anterior
Description
English: Plate 26: The Arch of Ferdinand: The Rear Face; two-tiered structure with lower storey articulated by six columns framing three arches and continued on upper storey with caryatid terms and statues of female personifications; dedication to Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand as protector of German liberty and defender of religion over central portal; large centerpiece canvas on tympanum depicts Prince Ferdinand and his cousin, Ferdinand IV, King of Hungary, at the Battle of Nördlingen; the gable is crowned by Aurora in the guise of a winged Victory riding in on a chariot drawn by white horses and proferring laurel wreaths and palm branches in her outstreched arms; flanking her two tree trunks laden with military trophies and with bound captives at their bases; at left and right are the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, wearing star-emblazoned helmets and each guiding a horse and bearing a standard with the monogram for Ferdinand encircled in a wreath; in pediment above the principal picture two eagles attack a serpent and to the left and right stand the sculpted personifications of Pietas, veiled and holding a chalice and patera, and Germania, supporting a shield adorned with the imperial eagle; beside them are full-length portraits of King Ferdinand of Hungary at left, with a portrait of Emperor Ferdinand II in the roundel above, and the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand at right, surmounted by a roundel with a portrait of his brother King Philip IV; flanking the upper tier are caryatid terms, winged cupids carrying standards and male figures holding torches; on the entablature of the lower storey are the coats of arms of the two Ferdinands along with their emblems: at left, the owl and shield with Gorgon head associated with Minerva, and opposite, the club, lion's skin and thunderbolt of Hercules; after Peter Paul Rubens; illustration for Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus" (Antwerp, 1641)
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Depicted people Illustration to: Gaspar Gevaerts
Date 1635-1641 (c.)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 534 millimetres (plate-mark)
Height: 649 millimetres (sheet)
Width: 390 millimetres
Width: 543 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1884,0112.57
Notes

One of a series of forty-three plates illustrating Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus"; for further comments see 1884,0112.31. The Ferdinandine Arch, dedicated to the Cardinal-Infante himself, stood in the Lange Nieuwstraat at its intersection with the Markgravestraat. The present arch was erected on the same monumental scale as the arch dedicated to Ferdinand's brother, Philip IV (1884,0112.43), with three openings for the procession to pass through and interconnected transverse passageways. Rubens designed the Arch of Ferdinand as a triumphal arch in the truest sense, its purpose being to celebrate the great military victory won by the prince and his cousin, Ferdinand IV, King of Hungary, at Nördlingen in 1634. Construction of the arch was contracted to Jan Wandelaers and painting of the decoration to Caspar van den Hoecke and his son Jan van den Hoecke.

Lit: John Rupert Martin, The Decorations for the Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi, Corpus Rubenianum XVI, London, 1972, pp. 141-152.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1884-0112-57
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