Amor cæcus.

Cæce quid a recto declinas calle Cupido!
Audi quod Ratio, quodque Minerva monet.
Cæcus es, et cæcos pariter tu reddis amantes.
Qui clausis occulis in sua fata ruunt.

L'Amator è cieco

Brancolando Cupido à lento piede,
Per trouar la sua strada, In vn cantone,
Lascia la sapienza, e la ragione,
Esser saggio et amar non si concede.

Tout amoureux aueugle.

Si l'amour sans raison aussy bienque sans yeux,
Préférea la vertu, la sottise et le uice,
Il faut que les amans, instruits dans sa milice,
Aueugles comme luy, soient tous capricieux.

Die Mind is Blind.

Indien de Blinden en de reedelooze Min,
Steld boven deugd de Ondeug en alle onweten heden
Zo moet dan al die Mind verbastert zyn van zin,
Niet kennende in hun doen het minste recht of reden.

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Same motto, pictura slightly modified, more details in the background: Amor cæcus [6] (in: anonymous, Thronus cupidinis (1620)) [Compare]
Same motto, different pictura: Amor cæcus. [15] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616)) [Compare]

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Amor cæcus. [15] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido (1613))
Amor cæcus. [15] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
Amor cæcus [6] (in: anonymous, Thronus cupidinis (1620))

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A blindfolded cupid stumbling through the street with hands forward as in a game of blind man's buff, towards two ladies; a couple of lovers in front of a house, in the background

street [25I141]
index finger forwards, pointing, indicating [31A25552]
walking [31A2711]
blindfold [31A3191]
visiting; receiving guests; elegant company [33A3]
'décolleté' [41D921]
blind-man's buff [43C71751]
Intellectual Blindness; 'Cecité della Mente' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [52AA552(+4)]
Irrationality (+ emblematical representation of concept) [52BB5(+4)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(AMOR CAECUS)]
suffering, misfortune of Cupid [92D16]
attributes of Cupid: blindfold [92D18(BLINDFOLD)]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]

Amor cæcus. [9]

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