The body and soul of the medal is distinguished in the history of art. By the body one means the image, which not only directly represents what happened but often hints at it through an allegory. The soul is the inscription which clarifies the image.Most of them are sick in both body and soul.

In a good medal 1. the visual representation should have an undisputed inner resemblance to what it is indicating. The Italians call it ´Metafora in fatto.´2. the inscription should indicate the resemblance in a short way but to the point. It should not be too dark.

Carl Christoph Schmieder, Handwörterbuch der gesammten Münzkunde, 1811

„The medal is a durable monument and is made to transmit great events to posterity. That which it represents and that which it says should be represented and said in a noble and ingenious way.“ Medailles Louis le Grand 1702

Eleonora, the Roman Empress, wifeOf the Most August Emperor Ferdinand III,Crowned the Queen of Bohemia 11 SeptemberOf the year 1656

VNVM SEQVOR (I follow the One)

Eleonora II Gonzagathe 1650sFranck Luycx

Wallenstein family collection

Gold specimen of the medal put on altar during the Coronation service

VNVM SEQVOR (I follow the One)

Unum sequor was her motto she added when signing visitor´s book

Italian eliotropo for sunflower resonates with her name Eleanor and her Italian origin. Also the poets played with her name changing it to Helionora Gonzaga

VNVM SEQVOR (I follow the One)

Laurel wreath for winner overcomming obstacles

light of true knowledge comming through the clouds of ignorance

Paradin (Symeons 1591)Sunflower- Turning to Christ (Camerarius 1590)- Following Christ (Reusner 1591)- Constant love and wife´s obedience of

husband (Typotius 1601)- Reward for good deeds (Taurellus 1602)- Faithfullness of lovers (Vaenius 1608,

Custos 1622)- Love of people towards good prince

(Zincgreff 1619)- Christ is Life (Hulsius 1631)

Van Dyck

Self-Portrait

after1633

Reward for good deeds (Taurellus 1602)Emblem of Painting imitating Natureas flower following the Sun

MantuaPalazzo del Te

Gasparo Molo, Ferdinand Gonzaga (1587 – 1626)

Personal motto unum sequor

Eleanor = Helionora = eliotropo

family emblem

Common emblem

Following Christ (Reusner 1591)

Eleonora Gonzagawearing her Order of Slaves of Virtue,1655KHM

VNVM SEQVOR (I follow the One)

SOL[A]] UBIQUE TRIUMPHAT (Itself triumphs everywhere)

Sol (Sun) x Sola (itself)

= Virtue- required from the members of the order

Laurel wreath for winner overcomming obstacles

The Empress also established the Sternkreuzorden,Order of the Starry Crossfor ladies who were obliged„to lead a virtuous life in the exercise of religion and works of charity.”

She wrote religious poetry and founded a literary academy

LEOP.IOS.S.R.I.CO.A.SCHLICK.S.C.M.CONS.INT.GEN.CAMP.MAR.SVP.BO.CANC(Leopold Josef, Count of the Holy Roman Empire of Schlick, Privy Counsellor of the Sacred Imperial Majesty, General and Field Marshal, Lord Chancellor of Bohemia)

BELLI ET PACIS DECORI. MDCCXVIII.| D.D.| C.G.H.(to the ornament of war and peace gives as gift Carl Gustav Heraeus in 1718)

„to the ornament of war and peace … “

„… General and Field Marshal, Lord Chancellor of Bohemia“

Paolo Giovio, Dialogo dell´imprese 1555cites from Plutarch an example of Pompey's seal-ring, where the device was a lion holding a naked sword in its paw- TOKEN OF AUTHORITY AND

POWER- HARD AND BOLD ENTERPRISE

Whitney 1586

Courage, Bravery, Valiance, Manliness; 'Ardire magnanimo et generoso', 'Gagliardezza', 'Valore', 'Virtù heroica', 'Virtù dell'animo e del corpo' (Ripa)

Paradin 1551 (Symeons 1591)

Lion from the family coat-of-arms

Bohemian lion,here adorning the Bohemian Chancery in Viennawhere Schlick worked asthe Chancellor of Bohemia

Leibnitz about Vienna, alluding to Schlick:„There are more solid scientists among aristocracy then among those who have science for their profession.“Heraeus to Leibnitz:„Schlick is the one who is most disposed towards the idea [to establish the Academy in Vienna],“ HARD AND BOLD ENTERPRISE that only succeeded in 1846.

Carl Gustav Heraeus(1671 – 1725)Emperor´s Inspector of Antiquities and Keeper of coins Poet appreciated for his beautiful hexameters

Carl Gustav Heraeus, Inscriptiones et symbola varii argumenti, Nurmbegr 1721

(Inscriptions and symbols of various subjects – but argumentum also suggests riddles)

Carl Gustav Heraeus(1671 – 1725)

Emperor´s Inspector of Antiquities and Keeper of coins

Portrait of a learned man who brings

history back to life by his writing based

on medals

Hoard of coins

Piece of Antiquity

Ink-stand + quilt

Book

Deed of record

Ripa´s History

Sambucus, Emblemata 1564Antiquitatis studiumTime destroys everything, and what, which artists’ hands produced, sees a long old age? Under his rule, destiny has snatched monuments away, so that antiquity cannot last longer, and form a structure. Look, now God shows marble blocks to you, Rome, in order to summon the kind of honesty approved through the virtue of the ancients. The riches are excavated as incentives for good deeds, and no day can ever efface coins. The golden coins testify of those who lived in a golden age, and they point out many things about which books have been silent.

Lion with church from the Schlick coat-of-arms

Lion with column.They both represent Fortitude

Warfare Learning

Haereus - ideaFischer von Erlach - designBraun - sculptures

1716

1723

Athena Mars

book

Emblemata Theodor de Bry,1592

Currasiered warrior x weak humanity fading soon away like lilly

63 years old

Long-term illness towards the end of his life, the government meetings were held by his bedside

Schloss Eggenberg

Take no thought for your life … Consider the lillies of the field, how they grow: they toile not, neither doe they spinne. And yet I say vnto you, that euen Solomon in all his glory, was not arayed like one of these.

Prince Eggenberg1631

Ottavio Piccolomini 1650

Since 1641 member of The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft where his emblem was annual honesty, in German Mondraute (Lunaria annua):

   Die Kleine Monraut' ist in wundersamen preis'    Jn dem sie manchem hengst die eisen rabgerißen:    Der Zwingend' ich daher und Zu entwafnen heis',    Hab' iederZeit den feind Zu zwingen mich beflißen    Und Zuentwafnen ihn: Jm werck' ich es erweis'    Er hat, gezwungen, mir bißher noch weichen müßen.    Doch nein, ich Zwing' ihn nicht: Gott ist es der den Zwingt,    Der mit der waffen macht auf meinen keyser dringt.

God´s Providence

Saavedra: offices in princely service

40 years old,no important office so farHis father the fallen prime minister 21 years ago

Prince Lobkowicz 1695

BY LIGHT OF SUN

NACH UNSRER FRIEDENS SONNE PRANGEN IST MARS MIR BLUTROTH

AUFGEGANGEN