Arms of Wiprecht von Rosenbach with Naval Battle

ca. 1620

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Likely installed in a chapel, this stained-glass panel commemorates the life and military career of Wiprecht von Rosenbach (ca. 1549 – 1607), Prince of Heitersheim, whose territories lay along the Rhine river in present-day Germany. At the top, two warships face off; below, allegorical figures of Justice and Prudence flank a coat of arms crested with a rampant lion. Von Rosenbach served as Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitaller of Saint John of Jerusalem (known after 1530 as the Knights of Malta), a Catholic religious order originally founded to care for pilgrims, the poor, and the sick. The naval conflict in the panel may be the Battle of Lepanto, one of the largest sea battles in history. As a young man, Rosenbach fought in this 1571 confrontation between the Ottoman Empire and Catholic fleets.
The panel was later enlarged to include the Latin motto Fortes Fortuna Iuvat (“Fortune favors the strong”) and the date 1620.

Title Arms of Wiprecht von Rosenbach with Naval Battle

Artwork Date ca. 1620

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Medium Stained glass: pot metal; white glass with silver stain, sanguine, and enamel

Dimensions Overall: 16 1/2 × 12 3/4 inches (41.9 × 32.4 cm)

Classification Stained Glass

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of George G. Booth

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 23.8

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Inscriptions Inscribed, at the bottom: FORTES FORTUNA IUVAT [Fortune favors the strong], 1620

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(Theodore Fischer, Lucerne, Switzerland);
George G. Booth (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA);
1923-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Lehmann, H. Sammlung Lord Sudeley, Toddington Castle, Gloucestershire. Schweizer Glasmalereien vorwiegend des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1911, p.

Burroughs, C. "Stained Glass Presented by Mr. George G. Booth." Bulletin of the DIA 4, no. 7 (April 1923): p. 59.

Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: Mid-western and Western States (Corpus Vitrearum Checklist III). Studies in the History of Art, vol. 28. Washington, DC p 173 (ill.).

Raguin, V. and H. Zakin. Stained Glass Before 1700 in the collections of the Midwest States (Corpus Vitrearum United States of America 7), vol I, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan. London, 2001, pp. 298-301.

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German (Baden-Württemberg), Arms of Wiprecht von Rosenbach with Naval Battle, ca. 1620, stained glass: pot metal; white glass with silver stain, sanguine, and enamel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of George G. Booth, 23.8.