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An Allegory of Earthly Life: a king disputes with Father Time observed by Mars, Mercury and Venus and Cupid, as Diana points her arrow at the earth below: there, a dentist is at work by a palace from which are driven away beggars, as a geographer, doctor
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Attributed to the Brunswick Monogrammist (active in the first half of the 16th Century)
An Allegory of Earthly Life: a king disputes with Father Time observed by Mars, Mercury and Venus and Cupid, as Diana points her arrow at the earth below: there, a dentist is at work by a palace from which are driven away beggars, as a geographer, doctor and scholars study before a fête champêtre, a friar preaches nearby, and a hilltop town is besieged beyond
inscribed 'LVDVS DEORVM' (strengthened)
oil on canvas transferred from panel
16.3/8 x 39.1/8 in. (41.7 x 99.5 cm.)
An Allegory of Earthly Life: a king disputes with Father Time observed by Mars, Mercury and Venus and Cupid, as Diana points her arrow at the earth below: there, a dentist is at work by a palace from which are driven away beggars, as a geographer, doctor and scholars study before a fête champêtre, a friar preaches nearby, and a hilltop town is besieged beyond
inscribed 'LVDVS DEORVM' (strengthened)
oil on canvas transferred from panel
16.3/8 x 39.1/8 in. (41.7 x 99.5 cm.)