Catholic University of Leuven
Quintinus Mesius
IHW
Inscriptions and textual elements: IHW. Headings and textual elements: 9. Inscriptions and textual elements: QVINTINVS MESIVS ANVER: / PIANVS PICTOR. / Ante faber fueram Cyclopëus ast vbi mecum / Ex æquo pictor cæpit amare procus: / Seque graues tuditum tonitrus postferre silenti / Peniculo obiecit cauta puella mihi: / Pictorem me fecit amor tudes innuit illud / Exiguus, tabulis quæ nota certa meis. / Sic, vbi Vulcanum nato Venus arma rogarat / Pictorem è fabro summe Poeta facis. illustration from: Lampsonius, Dominicus : Pictorum aliquot celebruim Germaniae Inferioris effigies.
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