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Une Salamandre au feu
Translations
Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web]
, p/no. 45/13 - Paradin, Princeliicke Deviisen, embl. 8
- Rollenhagen, Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, bk/embl. I/30
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A parallel for the French motto and the pictura (though mirrored salamander and absence of Cupid). A autruy mort, a moy vie [6] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601))
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A parallel for the French motto and the pictura (though mirrored salamander and absence of Cupid). A autruy mort, a moy vie [6] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8))
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A parallel for the French motto and the pictura (though absence of Cupid). A autruy mort, a moy vie. [30] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
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Parallel for the pictura (mirrored) and some mottoes (Latin, Italian, French) in: Mea vita per ignem [115] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- A autruy mort, a moy vie [6] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601))
- A autruy mort, a moy vie [6] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8))
- A autruy mort, a moy vie. [30] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido (1613))
- A autruy mort, a moy vie. [30] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
- Mea vita per ignem [115] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
Iconclass
Cupid with two torches hovering above a salamander in a fire- fire (one of the four elements)
[21C]
- salamander (fabulous animal); salamander as spirit of fire
[25FF412]
- landslide
[25H116]
- flying
[31A2762]
- camp-fire; watch-fire
[41B16]
- torch (+ kindling a light; lit, burning light, lamp, candle)
[41B32(+1)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+4)]
- Vitality, Viability, Vital Force (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[58B1(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(MEA VITA PER IGNEM)]
- other non-aggressive activities of Cupid
[92D156]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(TORCH)]