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Vivitur Ingenio


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Small engraving illustrating the famous motto extracted from the ancient collection of poems, Elegies to Maecenas: 'Vivitur ingenio, caetera mortis erunt' (One lives by ingenium, the rest belongs to death). It depicts a scholar accompanied by death in the form of a skeletton who is playing with wordly goods.

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Ingenuity: Ingenium, Ingenuity: Genius, Ingenuity: Sinnlichkeit, Scholar, Death, Book, Tree, Crown

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Herzog August Bibliothek

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