Un homme qui porte le Monde
Translations
Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web], p/no. 28/14
- Both parallel and dissimilarity for the pictura (carrying of the globe, but here by Cupid): Atlante maior [19] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)) [Compare]
References, across this site, to this page:
- Atlante maior [19] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
Iconclass
Atlas carrying the heavens on his shoulders- groups of trees [25G11]
- landscape with tower or castle [25I5]
- adult man (+ nude human being) [31D14(+89)]
- man (showing himself) undressed, quasi-nude [41D91]
- carrying something on the head or on the shoulders [46C1215]
- star-globe [49E121]
- Facility (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54D4(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(SUSTINET NEC FASTIDIT)]
- Atlas supporting the heavens on his shoulders [91B13661]