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Un Amour frapant une Tortüe
Translations
Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web]
, p/no. 46/4 -
Parallel for the pictura (here no female figures in the frame, background more detailed) and a parallel for some
mottoes (Latin, Italian, French) in: Amor odit inertes [46] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
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- Amor odit inertes [46] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
Iconclass
A cupid lashing forth with his bow at a tortoise- tortoises, turtles (+ forward movement of animal(s))
[25F44(+521)]
- low hill country
[25H114]
- hitting at something
[31A2743]
- flight, running away; pursuing
[33B9]
- archer's weapons: bow
[45C15(BOW)]
- Slowness, Tardiness; 'Tardité' (Ripa) (+ symbolical representation of concept)
[51MM11(+3)]
- Sluggishness, Inertia; 'Dapocaggine', 'Pigritia' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[54AA11(+4)]
- Idleness; 'Otio' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[54DD2(+4)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+4)]
- Hate; 'Odio capitale' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[56FF2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(AMOR ODIT INERTES)]
- Cupid struggling with or tormenting other persons, abstract concepts, (fabulous) animals, etc.
[92D142]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(BOW)]