La Foudre de Jupiter sur une Montagne
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Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web], p/no. 10/3
- Saavedra Fajardo, Principe [1655], embl. 50
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Jupiter's thunderbolt striking a mountain top- mountains [25H11]
- lightning, flash of lightning, thunderbolt [26E2]
- contrast between important and unimportant people; the inferior before the superior, the weak before the mighty [46A23:5(+4)]
- High, Top (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51I6(+4)]
- Danger; 'Pericolo' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54DD51(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(IOVI ET FULMINI)]
- attributes of Jupiter: thunderbolt [92B18(THUNDERBOLT)]