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THE ORIGINAL POEM - P.C. Hooft's Sonnet

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Please click on specific areas the image to explore each area of the painting. The picture shows an etching by Philips Galle, after Maarten van Heemskerck, and shows the Triumph of Time. It is part of a series of six, and dates from the 1560s. The series is based on the Trionfi of Petrarch. These are sonnets in which Petrarch evokes a number of forces, each of which is subsequently overcome by another, more powerful force, until finally Christ, or Eternity, remains triumphant. Each of Philips Galle's etchings shows one of these triumphs: Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity. The original etchings are in the Rijksprentenkabinet (part of the Rijksmuseum) in Amsterdam.

 

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