File:Janez Vajkard Valvasor.jpg

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Summary

Johann Weikhard von Valvasor: Self-portrait (

)

Artist



Alternative names	Johann Weichard von Valvasor, Janez Vajkard Valvasor
Description	Carniolan historian, writer and scientist
Date of birth/death	28 May 1641	19 September 1693
Location of birth/death	Ljubljana	Krško
Work location	Nuremberg
Authority file	: Q551267 VIAF: 49262010 ISNI: 0000000079749508 ULAN: 500098240 LCCN: n85090400 NLA: 35765670 WorldCat

Title

Self-portrait

Description

English: Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Carniolan noble and polyhistor (1641-1693)

Slovenščina: Janez Vajkard Valvasor, slovenski plemič in polihistor (1641-1693). Avtoportret (1689), bakrorez

Napis okoli slike in pod njo se glasi:/The text reads:

Herr Iohann Weyhart ValuaSor Freyh.: zu Gallnegkh und Neydorff, Herr zu WagenSperg, und Liechtenberg Einer löbl,. Landt,. des Herzogthumbs Crain in untern Viertl des FueSsvolkhs Haubtmann ... und ein Mitglied der Koniglichen Societet in Engelland.

Aspice, quoisquis ades, mecumque fateberis ipse;
haec satis illustrem monstrat imago virum.
Quam sat stemma vetus, quem sat pulcherrima virtus
ilustrat meritis Marte et in Arte probis
Invidet hunc patriae Parnassea turba et Apollo
quis quantusque is sit, scriba lege, acta vide.

Submississime dat d.d. Matthias Greischer, Chalcographus Viennae, Austriae

Date

circa 1689

Medium

copper engraving print on cardboard

Source/Photographer

http://www.portraitindex.de/documents/obj/67101665

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