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Un Amour qui veut abbatre un gros Arbre
Translations
Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web]
, p/no. 25/3 -
Parallel for the pictura (mirrored, addition of a castle in the background) and Italian motto (nearly) the same in:
Durate [106] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
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- Durate [106] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
Iconclass
A cupid striking a tree with an axe- trees
[25G3]
- (high) hill
[25H113]
- river
[25H213]
- archer's weapons: bow
[45C15(BOW)]
- quiver
[45C23]
- tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: axe
[47D8(AXE)]
- woodcutting, woodcutter ~ forestry
[47I84]
- Constancy, Tenacity; 'Costanza', 'Tenacité' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[53A21(+4)]
- Patience; 'Patienza' (Ripa) (+ symbolical representation of concept)
[54A44(+3)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(CUM PATIENTIA ET FREQUENTIA)]
- 'Omnia vincit Amor', Love the conqueror, Love triumphant
[92D1511]
- other non-aggressive activities of Cupid
[92D156]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(BOW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(QUIVER)]