Sujet

An Allegory of Passion, about 1532-1536. Creator: Hans Holbein the Younger.

Légende

An Allegory of Passion, about 1532-1536. Additional Info: The painted roundel in the center of this diamond-shaped wood panel features a rider in classical attire on a galloping white horse. A panel of this format usually depicted a coat of arms, but here it was adopted for a personal emblem. The unbridled horse-symbolic of vigor, ambition, or passion-carries a rider whose individualized features suggest it might be a portrait. Below, a cartouche holds the Italian inscription E cosi desio me mena (And so desire carries me along) taken from Petrarch's Canzoniere , written about 1342.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A63_205

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

68,0Mo (2,1Mo) / 40,6cm x 42,0cm / 4793 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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