File:Janez Vajkard Valvasor.jpg

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Johann Weikhard von Valvasor: Self-portrait   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Johann Weikhard von Valvasor  (1641–1693)  wikidata:Q551267 s:sl:Janez Vajkard Valvasor q:sl:Janez Vajkard Valvasor
 
Johann Weikhard von Valvasor
Alternative names
Johann Weichard von Valvasor, Janez Vajkard Valvasor
Description Carniolan historian, writer and scientist
Date of birth/death 28 May 1641 Edit this at Wikidata 19 September 1693 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Ljubljana Krško
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Nuremberg Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q551267
Title
Self-portrait
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English: Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Carniolan noble and polyhistor (1641-1693)
Slovenščina: Janez Vajkard Valvasor, slovenski plemič in polihistor (1641-1693). Avtoportret (1689), bakrorez

Napis okoli slike in pod njo se glasi:/The text reads:

Herr Iohann Weyhart ValuaSor Freyh.: zu Gallnegkh und Neydorff, Herr zu WagenSperg, und Liechtenberg Einer löbl,. Landt,. des Herzogthumbs Crain in untern Viertl des FueSsvolkhs Haubtmann ... und ein Mitglied der Koniglichen Societet in Engelland.

Aspice, quoisquis ades, mecumque fateberis ipse;
haec satis illustrem monstrat imago virum.
Quam sat stemma vetus, quem sat pulcherrima virtus
ilustrat meritis Marte et in Arte probis
Invidet hunc patriae Parnassea turba et Apollo
quis quantusque is sit, scriba lege, acta vide.

Submississime dat d.d. Matthias Greischer, Chalcographus Viennae, Austriae
Date circa 1689
date QS:P571,+1689-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium copper engraving print on cardboard
Source/Photographer http://www.portraitindex.de/documents/obj/67101665

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15:29, 4 February 2007Thumbnail for version as of 15:29, 4 February 2007687 × 1,024 (164 KB)Janezdrilc (talk | contribs)Author: Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Date: 1689, Name: Janez Vajkard Valvasor (self-portrait), Technique: Copper engraving Category:Valvasors Copper engravings Category:History of Slovenia Category:People Category:People of Slovenia [[Category
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