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

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

3-035-586 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

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.


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People Information

Creator
  1. Hans Holbein the Younger, attributed to: German: Artist, painter, printmaker, draughtsman
People Related
  1. Francesco Petrarca: Italian: scholar, poet, humanist

Picture Type
  1. Painting
  2. Panel painting

Category Hierarchy

Society & Culture Art & Literature

Artistic Representations Allegories

People Other


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4793x4960
File Size : 69,649kb


Aliases

  1. 80.PB.72
  1. 103REW
  1. 1200000186
  1. 3-035-586
  1. 3035586
  1. 80.PB.72

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