Title

Eeuwigheid

Alternative Title

Eternity

Subject

ouroboros

serpant

nature

time

allegory

paper

engraving

Netherlands

Descriptive Note

Engraving depicting a barefoot women who hold an ourboros in her right hands and a two-faced head in her left. The women's face is orientented towards the head. At the top of the engraving is the word 'Aeternitas', a latin for 'Eternity'. At the bottom of the engraving is the inscription 'Circulis aeternam me, praeteriti atque futuri Me gnaram bifrons effe docet facies'. Translated from Latin this means 'You circle the eternal Me, the face of the past and the future teaches me the knowledge of the two-faced man'.

Creator

Galle, Philips

Killan, Cornelis

Material

paper

ink

Technqiue Name

engraving

place of creation

Antwerp ; Southern Netherlands

Date Created

1585 - 1590

Dimensions

153 mm x 89 mm

place of exhibition

The Rijksmuseum