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Perfectus amor non est nisi ad unum [2]
Facsimile Images
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2, LDF:
2, LIF:
3, pictura:
Translations
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Aristoteles
Liefde is alleen volmaakt als die op één persoon is gericht. [Aristoteles?] |
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Aristoteles
Love is only perfect if directed to one. [Aristoteles?] |
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Zie, Amor houdt van één, hij draagt één en kijk, hij kroont één, en zie, hij vertrapt met zijn voet op de andere getallen.
Als een rivier in meer beken vertakt, wordt hij kleiner en verdwijnt bij gebrek aan water. |
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Amor loves one, and, look, he carries on, and, behold, he crowns one, and, look, he treads with his foot on the other numbers.
If a river is brought into several brooks, he becomes smaller and from lack of water he perishes. |
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Ovidius, Ars amatoria 1, 42
Kies degene tegen wie je zegt: 'Alleen jij bevalt me.' |
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Ovidius, Ars amatoria 1, 42
Choose to whom you will say: 'You alone please me.' [tr. J.H. Mozley, Loeb, p. 15] |
Literature
- About the use of this emblem in a Vermeer painting: De Jongh, Zinne- en minnebeelden
, pp. 48-50
- Porteman, Inleiding tot de Nederlandse emblemataliteratuur, pp. 45-46
- Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, p. 100
- Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 16
Sources and parallels
- Ayres, Emblemata amatoria, embl. 34
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Same motto, pictura slightly altered (different numbers on the card): Perfectus amor non est nisi ad unum. [36] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
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Pictura which parallels this one: In unitate perfectio [11] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))
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Compare 'Quando el mar se parte/ Arrojos se haze' in: [Opener] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))
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Parallel for the pictura (mirrored) and the Latin motto in: Un Amour qui marche sur des Chiffres, & en retient un (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Perfectus amor non est nisi ad unum. [36] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
- Un Amour qui marche sur des Chiffres, & en retient un (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
- [Opener] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))
- In unitate perfectio [11] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))
Iconclass
A cupid holds up a table with the digit '1' and tramples on a table with various digits- (high) hill
[25H113]
- brook
[25H212]
- landscape with tower or castle
[25I5]
- landscape with bridge, viaduct or aqueduct
[25I6]
- trampling, treading, stamping on someone or something
[31A2726]
- archer's weapons: bow
[45C15(BOW)]
- scholastic education, tuition (+ teaching aids)
[49B(+8)]
- numerals
[49D11]
- number symbolism
[49D110]
- materials to write on, writing surfaces
[49L64]
- Perfection, Completeness; 'Perfettione', 'Operatione perfetta' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[51A7(+4)]
- Indivisibility (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[51H11(+4)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(PERFECTUS AMOR NON EST NISI AD UNUM)]
- other non-aggressive activities of Cupid
[92D156]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(BOW)]