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Clam - Gallas Palace - An Emblematic Architecture?

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2010

Abstract

An engraving of the Clam-Gallas palace made by johann Adam Delsenbach according to Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach's design contains the inscription FIDEM. FATI.

VIRUTE. SEQUEMUR, which in books of imprese and emblem books alludes to the emperor Augustus with whom the Count Gallas originally intended to be identified.