magictransistor: Petrarch. The Triumph of Fame over Death....

magictransistor : Petrarch. The Triumph of Fame over Death. 1500s. The Triumph of Fame over Death , South Netherlandish, c. 1500–1530. The winged figure of Fame, riding in a chariot pulled by a team of white elephants and sounding a trumpet, heralds the appearance of four famous men: two philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, and two rulers, Alexander the Great (bearing a golden scepter) and…