Un Amour portant une Colonne, foulant une Bêche & une peau de Beuf
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Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web], p/no. 5/9
- Parallel for the pictura (mirrored) and some mottoes (Latin, Italian, French) in: Nulli cupiat cessisse labori [101] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)) [Compare]
References, across this site, to this page:
- Nulli cupiat cessisse labori [101] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
Iconclass
A cupid carrying a column steps on a spade and the skin of an ox- trees [25G3]
- landscape with tower or castle [25I5]
- trampling, treading, stamping on someone or something [31A2726]
- coal-shovel [41B224]
- archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
- quiver [45C23]
- Labour [46A170]
- carrying something on the head or on the shoulders [46C1215]
- ox (+ skin, fleece, hide, fur, leather) [47I21111(+9351)]
- column, pillar ~ architecture [48C161]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
- Willingness (+ emblematical representation of concept) [53B4(+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)]
- Facility (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54D4(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(NULLI CUPIAT CESSISSE LABORI)]
- other non-aggressive activities of Cupid [92D156]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]