Harpies try to keep open the doors of the temple of Janus, but they are clubbed by Hercules. Coloured mezzotint by A. Blooteling after G. de Lairesse.

Harpies try to keep open the doors of the temple of Janus, but they are clubbed by Hercules. Mezzotint by A. Blooteling after G. Lairesse.

The age of two-faced Janus : the comets of 1577 and 1618 and the decline of the Aristotelian world view in the Netherlands / by Tabitta van Nouhuys.

1 print : mezzotint, painted in colours and mounted on glass ; glass 35.5 x 28.5 cm

The two-headed figure of Janus standing on two spheres holding vine and a large key within a landscape.

1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 36.5 x 27.5 cm

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The age of two-faced Janus : the comets of 1577 and 1618 and the decline of the Aristotelian world view in the Netherlands / by Tabitta van Nouhuys.

Harpies try to keep open the doors of the temple of Janus, but they are clubbed by Hercules. Coloured mezzotint by A. Blooteling after G. de Lairesse.

The two-headed figure of Janus standing on two spheres holding vine and a large key within a landscape.

Harpies try to keep open the doors of the temple of Janus, but they are clubbed by Hercules. Mezzotint by A. Blooteling after G. Lairesse.