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Herme oder Terme? Texte und Bilder zur Klärung der Begriffe aus: Achilles Statius, Inlustrium viror[um] ut extant in urbe expressi vultus Romae 1569/Formis Antonij Lafrerj und: Achilles Statius’ Inlustrium virorum … vultus:

Herme oder Terme? Texte und Bilder zur Klärung der Begriffe aus: Achilles Statius, Inlustrium viror[um] ut extant in urbe expressi vultus Romae 1569/Formis Antonij Lafrerj und: Achilles Statius’ Inlustrium virorum … vultus: Hermen oder Termen? von Claudia Echinger-Maurach (FONTES 89)

This publication contains the transcripts of Achilles Statius' dedication to Antoine de Granvelle and his important, unpublished introduction into Lafrery's edition of the "Inlustrium virorum" from 1569 with a translation of both texts into German. In the following article Statius' explanation why these figures, which we today call herms, are called terms is embedded not only into the early history of these "terms" in art and architecture, but also into the history of publications on portraits of famous men and women in the 16th century.