Cupidon aidé de la Fortune pour battre l’Envie
Translations
Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web], p/no. 49/13
- Parallel for the pictura (mirrored, more detailed) and for the Latin and French motto: Audaces fortuna iuvat [54] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)) [Compare]
References, across this site, to this page:
- Audaces fortuna iuvat [54] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
Iconclass
Fortune and a cupid driving away Envy- Envy; 'Invidia' (Ripa) ~ personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins [11N32]
- snakes (+ animals as attributes) [25F42(+13)]
- low hill country [25H114]
- monsters ~ snakes (+ hair, feathers) [31A4542(+42)]
- help (to an endangered fellow man) [33A61]
- kicking [33B32]
- flight, running away; pursuing [33B9]
- archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
- quiver [45C23]
- parts of ship's exterior: rudder [46C215(RUDDER)]
- Courage, Bravery, Valiance, Manliness; 'Ardire magnanimo et generoso', 'Gagliardezza', 'Valore', 'Virtù heroica', 'Virtù dell'animo e del corpo' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54A8(+4)]
- Luck, Fortune, Lot; 'Fato', 'Fortuna', 'Fortuna aurea', 'Fortuna buona', 'Fortuna pacifica overo clemente', 'Sorte' (Ripa) (+ abstract concept represented by female figure) [54F12(+11)]
- 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) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
- Jealousy; 'Gelosia', 'Rammarico del ben'altrui' (Ripa) (+ abstract concept represented by female figure) [57AA76(+11)]
- Jealousy; 'Gelosia', 'Rammarico del ben'altrui' (Ripa) (+ strife between concepts) [57AA76(+22)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(AUDACES FORTUNA IUVAT)]
- Cupid struggling with or tormenting other persons, abstract concepts, (fabulous) animals, etc. [92D142]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]