File:Maarten van Heemskerck - A battle with soldiers plundering a temple, c1573 - British Museum SL,5236.161 -02.jpg

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Maarten van Heemskerck: A battle with soldiers plundering a temple  wikidata:Q116985996 reasonator:Q116985996
Artist
Maarten van Heemskerck  (1498–1574)  wikidata:Q538350
 
Maarten van Heemskerck
Alternative names
Marten van Heemskerck, Martinus van Heemskerck,
Maarten van Heemskerk, Maertÿnus van Heemskerck
Description Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 1498 Edit this at Wikidata 1 October 1574 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Heemskerk Haarlem
Work location
Delft, Haarlem (1527–1532), Rome (1532–1536), Mantua (1536–1537),
Haarlem (1537–1574), Amsterdam (1572–1573)
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artist QS:P170,Q538350
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
A battle with soldiers plundering a temple
Object type drawing
object_type QS:P31,Q93184
Description
A battle with soldiers plundering a temple; to right a woman being carried off and handed to a horseman wearing a lionskin, other semi-nude figures on horseback brandishing swords and trampling on wounded and dying in the foreground
Date between circa 1573 and circa 1574
date QS:P571,+1573-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1573-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1574-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium ink on paper
medium QS:P186,Q127418;P186,Q11472,P518,Q861259
Pen and grey-brown ink, on two conjoined sheets
Dimensions 204 × 538 mm (8.03 × 21.18 in)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
SL,5236.161
Object history Acquisition date 1753
Credit line Courtesy of the British Museum, London
Inscriptions Signed and numbered: "5"
Notes According to Preibisz, this is the pendant to a drawing at Hamburg of a similar subject dated 1573. Though both of these are of the type of designs for engravings, no such engravings appear to have been made from them [1]
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