Allegory of the Course of Human Life (Choosing Virtue) 1570 or before Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus Netherlandish This drawing is the only surviving of Stradanuss designs for the six-part print series The Course of Human Life, engraved by Petrus Jalhea Furnius and published by Hieronymous Cock in Antwerp in 1570 (see 17.3.3424, 17.3.3425, 17.3.3428, 17.3.885-18, 17.3.885-19, and 49.95.872[6). These works relate to a tapestry cycle for which Stradanus produced cartoons eleven years earlier, in 1559. Known as the Life of Man, this cycle was one of numerous tapestry projects executed for the Florentine duke Cosimo I deMedici in which the artist played a significant role. Born and trained in Flanders, Stradanus was working in Florence and producing cartoons and other works for the Medici court most likely as early as the 1540s.[1 Some of his earlier tapestry designs and paintings were engraved, but it was only in the later 1560s that he began actively to produce designs for prin

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Allegory of the Course of Human Life (Choosing Virtue) 1570 or before Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus Netherlandish This drawing is the only surviving of Stradanuss designs for the six-part print series The Course of Human Life, engraved by Petrus Jalhea Furnius and published by Hieronymous Cock in Antwerp in 1570 (see 17.3.3424, 17.3.3425, 17.3.3428, 17.3.885-18, 17.3.885-19, and 49.95.872[6). These works relate to a tapestry cycle for which Stradanus produced cartoons eleven years earlier, in 1559. Known as the Life of Man, this cycle was one of numerous tapestry projects executed for the Florentine duke Cosimo I deMedici in which the artist played a significant role. Born and trained in Flanders, Stradanus was working in Florence and producing cartoons and other works for the Medici court most likely as early as the 1540s.[1 Some of his earlier tapestry designs and paintings were engraved, but it was only in the later 1560s that he began actively to produce designs for prin

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