Un Amour tenant un Flambeau sans dessus-dessous
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Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web], p/no. 46/12
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A cupid is holding his torch upside down- torch - BB - torch held upside down (+ kindling a light; lit, burning light, lamp, candle) [41BB32(+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)]
- Mortality, Extinction of Life (+ emblematical representation of concept) [58BB1(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(QUOD NUTRIT, EXTINGUIT)]
- specific aspects of Cupid [92D17]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(TORCH)]