Perpolit incultum paullatim tempus amorem [29]
Translations
Gelijdelijk polijst de tijd de ruwe liefde. |
Gradually time polishes rude love. |
Literature
- Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 442
- Moseley, Century of Emblems, p. 134
- Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, p. 106
- Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 25
Sources and parallels
- Perpolit incultum paulatim tempus amorem [20] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618)) [Compare]
- Ayres, Emblemata amatoria, embl. 5
- Paullatim in motto, pictura slightly modified: Perpolit Incultum paulatim tempus amorem. [6] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690)) [Compare]
- Paulatim in motto, pictura slightly modified: Perpolit Incultum paulatim tempus amorem. [6] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690)) [Compare]
References, across this site, to this page:
- Perpolit Incultum paulatim tempus amorem. [6] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
- Perpolit incultum paulatim tempus amorem [20] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
Iconclass
A cupid watches a bear licking its cub into shape- beasts of prey, predatory animals: bear (+ feeding and care of young) [25F23(BEAR)(+42)]
- landscape with tower or castle [25I5]
- kneeling figure [31A233]
- archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
- quiver [45C23]
- Perfection, Completeness; 'Perfettione', 'Operatione perfetta' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51A7(+4)]
- Growth (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51H5(+4)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(PERPOLIT INCULTUM PAULATIM TEMPUS AMOREM)]
- other non-aggressive activities of Cupid [92D156]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]