Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdamus restorer Latinitatis

An old man with a white beard and wearing a brown fur-trimmed hat and a cloak looks out towards the spectator with a doleful expression. He holds in his left hand two broken eggs a...

Inscriptions and textual elements: DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, / born in Rotterdam, in the year 1467 / died in Basel, in the year 1536. Inscriptions and textual elements: By C. PRONK drawn...

The portrait contains inscriptions in both Latin and Greek, the scholarly languages promoted by Erasmus. The Greek phrase emphasises the idea that Erasmus's writings provide a more...