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Four scholars amidst broken tombs (Temporalitas Aeternitas)

Giovanni Benedetto CASTIGLIONE
Four scholars amidst broken tombs (Temporalitas Aeternitas)
 1645

Medium
etching

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1925

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
B25 Percy E.13

Accession Number
1455-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Philosophy, Scholarship, Learning and Teaching

Subjects (specific)
memory (psychological concept) mortality reading (activity) scholars tombs

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Essay
A Bernini self-portrait?

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