XV.

Avxilivm amoris.

Titelm. in Psal. f. 294.
Educ Domine animam
meam de custodia & obsi-
dione, quâ me obsident inimi-
ci mei, perdere quærentes eam,
vt saluam educas liberatione
tuâ.

Ierem. 39.
Eruens liberabo te, quia in me
habuisti fiduciam, & non tra-
déris in manus virorum, quos
tu formidas.[Bible

, Jeremiah 39:17]

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Ierem. 30.
Eruens liberabo te, quia in me habuisti fiduciam, & non
traderis in manus virorum quos tu formidas.[Bible

, Jeremiah 39:17]

Il ny a pas de place forte,
Quand l’amour veut forcer la porte.

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Secovrs d’amovr.

Si l’Amour veut il forcera la porte,
Car contre Amour nulle place n’est
forte:
Chasteau, prison, inexpugnable tour,
Liens & ceps, les chaisnes plus cruelles,
Geoles, fers, gardes & sentinelles,
Tout cede, craint & fait place à l’Amour.

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Hugo, Pia desideria, bk/embl. 3/10 (as illustrated in: Hugo, Pia desideria (ed. Arwaker), bk/embl. 3/10)
Remake of image, not mirrored, a bucket pending from the prison bars and a crouching Cupid on the roof added, in: Auxilium Amoris [31] (in: Ludovicus van Leuven, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1629)) [Compare]
Parallel for the pictura (different facial expressions, a bucket pending from the prison bars and a Cupid on the roof added) and a parallel for the Latin bible quote and the French epigram, in:Vast betrouwen [23] (in: Jan van Hoogstraten, Zegepraal der goddelyke liefde (1709)) [Compare]

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Auxilium Amoris [31] (in: Ludovicus van Leuven, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1629))
Vast betrouwen [23] (in: Jan van Hoogstraten, Zegepraal der goddelyke liefde (1709))

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Sacred love, armed with sword, shield and keys approaches the tower where the soul is held captive by two armed devils

God's perfections [11A23]
devils in the form of (fabulous) animals [11K2]
radiance emanating from persons or things [22C31]
sitting on an elevation [31A2352]
adult woman [31D15]
'Ajuto', 'Soccorso' (Ripa) [33A610]
freeing (an endangered fellow man) [33A62]
key [41A3281]
tower (of house or building) [41A361]
prison, jail [44G311]
prison personnel: jailers, warders, guards [44G3111]
prisoner in cell or locked place [44G313]
hacking and thrusting weapons: sword [45C13(SWORD)]
helved weapons, polearms (for striking, hacking, thrusting): halberd [45C14(HALBERD)]
protective weapons: shield [45C19(SHIELD)]
armour [45C22]
mask, mascaron ~ ornament [48A98211]
Liberation (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51E12(+4)]
Strength, Power; 'Fortezza', 'Fortezza d'Animo e di corpo', 'Fortezza del corpo congiunta con la generosité dell'animo', 'Fortezza & valore del corpo congiunto con la prudenza & virtù del animo', 'Forza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54A7(+4)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ clothed) [56F2(+123)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(AUXILIUM AMORIS)]

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Auxilium amoris. [15]

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