Spring

Public Domain

Artist / maker

Hans Frei (medalists)

Period

20th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Swiss medallist Hans Frei engraved an allegory of spring on this bronze medal. He shows a female nude sitting in a garden. The young woman is looking at a flower she is holding in her left hand. In the background are a tree on the left and right.

More about this work

Features
Artist / maker Hans Frei RKD Wikidata
Type art medal AAT
Category medals
Material bronze
Object number 1911-BA
Description
Subject figures (representations)
Tags female sex; woman Iconclass, adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass, sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass, symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ art; 'Arte' (Ripa) Iconclass, spring, 'Ver'; 'Primavera' (Ripa) Iconclass, spring ~ human activities (the four seasons of the year) Iconclass, spring landscape; landscape symbolizing spring (the four seasons of the year) Iconclass, flowers Iconclass, trees Iconclass, Youth, Adolescence, 'Iuventus'; 'Adolescenza', 'Gioventu' (Ripa) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1911-BA
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7723/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:1911-BA
Vlaamse Kunstcollectie - EN

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