Servants taking food to their master; illustrating a scene in Murer's play 'Edessa'. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

  • Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614.
Date:
1622
Reference:
26706i
Part of:
XL Emblemata miscella nova
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Description

For information on this print, see Vignau-Wilberg, ibid., p. 85. She suggests that Rordorf interpreted this scene as "Symbol der "dolce vita" der Angestellten am Hof" and then prints Rordorf's verse: "Wies mit diensten z'hoff thut gahn/ Thut die Figur fein bilden an./ Hie sichst den Keller, Beck und Koch/ Zum prass ir jedem ist sehr gach/ Flux richtet an eine Collatz:/ Kosts hauss und hof: Ade was schadts"

Publication/Creation

Zurich : Johann Rudolf Wolf, 1622.

Physical description

1 print : etching.

Lettering

Vita aulica invida. CM.

References note

For detailed information on Murer's series, see: Thea Vignau-Wilberg, 'Christoph Murer und die "XL. Emblemata miscella nova"' (Bern : Benteli Verlag, 1982)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 26706i

Notes

This series was originally intended by Murer to serve as illustration to his play 'Edessa', but he died before completing it. The play concerned the politics surrounding the Arian controversy in the fourth century Christian church. In her book (cited below), T. Vignau-Wilberg demonstrates that Murer used the story of the persecutions in Edessa of non-Arians by Arians as a cipher for the persecution of Protestants by Catholics in his contemporary Europe. However, the play was never published and the etchings were published as emblems eight years after his death, with a different text written by Johann Heinrich Rordorf, sometimes at variance with the intention of the original

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