Description
Portrait de Christophe von TIEFENBACH
Gravé au burin par Dominicus CUSTOS (Anvers 1560 – Augsbourg 1612)
d’après Giovanni Battista FONTANA (Vérone 1525 – Innsbruck 1587)
pour le « Armamentarium Heroicum »
Hollstein 60
1ère parution en allemand en 1603
Feuille : 435 x 300 mm
Coup de planche : 420 x 290 mm
Taches d’humidité en partie basse (voir photos)
Au verso : gravure sur bois : une bordure ornementale avec des guirlandes, entourant la typographie gothique. 1603 – 1605
Portrait of Christoph von Tiefenbach, whole-length, standing, directed to the left, looking at the viewer, wearing armour, and sash, holding baton in his right hand, his left hand on his waist, plumed helmet on a plinth on the floor; within a niche, flanked on either side by decorated Corinthian columns.
Engraved portrait within an etched setting
Christophe de Teuffenbach ( allemand : Christoph Baron von Teuffenbach , 1525 ou 1528 – octobre 1598 ) était un noble, général et diplomate du Saint Empire romain germanique . Il est issu de la famille styrienne Teuffenbach de Mayrhofen. (source wikipédia)
« Augustissimorum Imperatorum … regum… verissimae imagines.. » (also known as « Armamentarium Heroicum« ) is the catalogue of the arms collection Archduke Ferdinand II kept at Ambras castle; it was first published in Innsbruck in 1601. It was illustrated with a frontispiece and 125 portraits of European princes in full armour, with decorative surroundings. The plates were engraved by Dominicus Custos after designs by Giovanni Battista Fontana. Each plate was accompanied by a short biographical text on the former owner of the armour, written by Jacob Schrenk von Notzing.
A German translation of the book (by J. E. Noyse von Campenhouten) was published in 1603 under the title « Der aller Durchleuchtigisten und Grossmächtigen Kayser, Durchleuchtigisten unnd Großmächtigen Königen… ». A third edition including 123 plates was issued in Innsbruck in 1605. (source British Museum)
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