Horaz

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Basic data

  1. Horatius Flaccus, Quintus Real Name
  2. December 8, 65 BCE in Venusia
  3. November 27, 8 BCE
  4. Dichter
  5. Rom

Iconography

Bronze medallion depicting Horace, 4th-5th century (Source: Wikimedia)
Horatii Flacci Sermonum (1577) (Source: Wikimedia)
Horace reads his poems in front of Maecenas, by Fyodor Bronnikov (Source: Wikimedia)
Horace reciting his verses, by Adalbert von Rössler. (Source: Wikimedia)
Horace, portrayed by Giacomo Di Chirico (Source: Wikimedia)
Horace in his Studium: German print of the fifteenth century, summarizing the final ode 4.15 (in praise of Augustus). (Source: Wikimedia)
Horace in an anonymous late 18th to early 19th century engraving (Source: Wikimedia)
Bibendum (the symbol of the Michelin tyre company) takes his name from the opening line of Ode 1.37, Nunc est bibendum. (Source: Wikimedia)
Odes 1.14 – Wall poem in Leiden (Source: Wikimedia)
Bildnis des Horatius, 1651/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Horatius, 1651/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Horatius Flaccus, Johann Christoph König - 1696/1734 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Horaz, Krüger, Andreas Ludwig - 1768 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Horativs, Johann Adam Bartsch - 1786/1820 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Horativs, Carl Heinrich Grünler (ungesichert) - 1781/1820 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Horaz, Johann Heinrich Lips - 1800 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Horativs, Gottlob August Liebe - nach 1765 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis Horaz (Quintus Horatius Flaccus),  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis Horaz (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen -  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Biographical information from the WeGA

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