Une Venus qui veut ôter le Flambeau à Cupidon
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Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web], p/no. 48/8
- Fit Amor violentior a vi [60] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618)) [Compare]
- Eerste Verdeeling. [1] (in: Jan Luyken, Duytse lier (1671)) [Compare]
- Parallel for the pictura (mirrored, background more detailed) and for the Italian and French motto in: Fit amor violentior avi [113] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)) [Compare]
References, across this site, to this page:
- Eerste Verdeeling. [1] (in: Jan Luyken, Duytse lier (1671))
- Fit amor violentior avi [113] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
- Fit Amor violentior a vi [60] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
Iconclass
Venus holding the torch of a cupid- low hill country [25H114]
- river [25H213]
- dam (in canal) (+ variant) [25H222(+0)]
- torch (+ kindling a light; lit, burning light, lamp, candle) [41B32(+1)]
- parts of ship's exterior: rudder [46C215(RUDDER)]
- Strength, Power; 'Fortezza', 'Fortezza d'Animo e di corpo', 'Fortezza del corpo congiunta con la generosité dell'animo', 'Fortezza & valore del corpo congiunto con la prudenza & virtù del animo', 'Forza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54A7(+4)]
- Opposition, Counteraction, Resistance (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54EE11(+4)]
- Luck, Fortune, Lot; 'Fato', 'Fortuna', 'Fortuna aurea', 'Fortuna buona', 'Fortuna pacifica overo clemente', 'Sorte' (Ripa) (+ clothed) [54F12(+113)]
- Luck, Fortune, Lot; 'Fato', 'Fortuna', 'Fortuna aurea', 'Fortuna buona', 'Fortuna pacifica overo clemente', 'Sorte' (Ripa) (+ strife between concepts) [54F12(+22)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ strife between concepts) [56F2(+22)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(IMPEDITUS FEROCITUR)]
- specific aspects of Cupid [92D17]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(TORCH)]