Allegory of the Triumph of the Church, Fourth Scene
date: label: Date
content: 1595 or before
name: label: Artist
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: View of a procession with an open chariot moving left, led by a group of figures and animals identified as the Four Evangelists. An ox (symbol of Saint Luke) and a lion (symbol of Saint Mark) walk before the chariot together with an angel (symbol of Saint Matthew). Saint Peter leads the lion, and Saints Paul and James walk nearby. A large eagle (symbol of Saint John) flies overhead at left, the reins in its beak. Seated in the chariot is a haloed female figure (drawn twice in overlapping strokes) holding a book. A second woman kneels before her. An explanatory inscription in Dutch appears along the bottom margin. Annotations in Italian throughout.
label: Description
content: Verso: Dutch inscription
place: label: made in
content: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Janos Scholz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1947-58-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Recto: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint on laid paper Verso: Pen and brown ink on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 10.2 × 14.7 cm (4 × 5 13/16 in.)