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Visit to the Antiquarium of the Munich Royal Residence

I went to the Residenz Museum in Munich today. It has one room that I found particularly charming, the Antiquarium.

It's a pretty charming hall, filled with paintings and Latin quotes:

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So the structure of the room is that there's a row of paintings going along the length of the ceiling. Each painting illustrates some aspirational human characterisic (justice, charity, fame, etc). To either side of every painting there are two columns, and on each one there is a short+snappy Latin quote on the theme.

Obedientia

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Abstinentia

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Patientia

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Clementia

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Humilitas

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Castitas

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Veritas

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Constantia

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Fama

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Fortitudo

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Iustitia

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Temperantia

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Prudentia

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Charitas

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Spes

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Fides

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Other Latin in the Residence

The Residence is brimming with Latin, and elegiac couplets in particular.

Calendar Tapestries

There's a series of giant tapestries for each month of the year, with Latin inscriptions on them. Here are the ones I could get decent photos of (some had the inscriptions covered over by furniture...).

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Tapestries of historical figures

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More Elegiac couplets

You thought that was the end of the couplets? Nope...

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Other Latin

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There are...many more photographs of other Latin couplets in my photo album, but I think I've reached the storage limit, and this page is already obnoxiously large. Anyway, if you're ever around Munich, and like Latin, the Royal Residence is to be recommended!

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