IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 28210 accession number: C.38-1983 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Clear glass, silver-stained and painted, yellow and brown with border of blue glass. The Triumph of Fame over Death. The winged figure of Fame stands on a golden car drawn by two lions, blowing a double trumpet. In front of her is a low reading-desk on which four books are visible, and behind follows a group of armed men, on e with unsheathed sword; to the left, in the background, a man carries two pillars and in the far distance are classical ruins. In the foreground lie the prostrate figures of the three Fates. title: roundel NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the collection of Dr C.A. Ralegh Radford, FSA. In the possession of the vendor's father at Bradninch Manor from at least 1918-21 to his death in 1925 and then in the possession of the vendor and his mother there until 1949 when the panel and its companion were removed. See letter of 16th September, 1983. They may have been in the vendor's father's possession since 1914. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, with a grant-in-Aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/28210 PEOPLE ------------------- Fame Fates men SUBJECTS ------------------- trumpet pillars book sword lions ruins trumpet pillars book sword lions ruins TECHNIQUES ---------- clear glass, silver-stained and painted, yellow and brown with border of blue glass staining TECHNIQUES ---------- painting CATEGORIES ------ category: stained glass category: glass DATING ------ creation date: 1540 - 1550 creation date earliest: 1540 creation date latest: 1550 culture: 16th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Coecke van Aelst, Pieter I DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 32 CITATIONS -------- The Luminous Image, Painted Glass Roundels in the Lowlands, 1480-1560 Pierre Langlois: A further note on the Fitzwilliam commode De Glasschilerkunst in Belgie, Repertorium en Documenten Renaissance et Manièrism dans les Ecoles du Nord. Dessins des collections de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts Leuvens Brandglas Thomas Le Claire Kunsthandel VIII Master Drawings 1500-1900 ---