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Apparet dissimulatus amor [73]
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Translations
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[Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria 7]. Ovidius, Heroides 16, 238
Iedereen ziet wat ik voel, ook al verberg ik het. |
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[Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria 7]. Ovidius, Heroides 16, 238
The love I cover up appears. |
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[cf. Ovidius, Heroides 16, 7-8] Je ontveinst het tevergeefs, want wie kan het vuur verbergen? Zijn eigen tekenen verraden
het licht.... |
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[cf. Ovidius, Heroides 16, 7-8] You dissimulate in vain, for who can hide fire? Light betrays itself by its own characteristics.... |
Literature
- Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery
, p. 113
- Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 35
Sources and parallels
- Apparet dissimulatus Amor [42] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
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- Whitney uses the barrel with a hole to admonish against (a.o.) not keeping a secret: Whitney, Choice of Emblemes, p. 12
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Parallel (and probably source) for the subscriptio and probably entire emblem: Je ne le puis celer [7] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601))
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In motto apparet, pictura slightly modified, background shows natural setting with two Cupids: Aparet dissimulatus, Amor. [12] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
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Parallel for the main pictorial element: hiding fire in vain (here by one Cupid in stead of two): Ie ne le puis celer. [31] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
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Parallel (and probably source) for the Latin subscriptio and entire emblem: Ie ne le puis celer [7] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8))
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Cupid and barrel: Harmoniam rerum Amor conservat. [2] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Aparet dissimulatus, Amor. [12] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
- Je ne le puis celer [7] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601))
- Ie ne le puis celer [7] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8))
- Ie ne le puis celer. [31] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido (1613))
- Harmoniam rerum Amor conservat. [2] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
- Ie ne le puis celer. [31] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
- Apparet dissimulatus Amor [42] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
Iconclass
Two cupids slightly tilt a barrel which they hold upside down; one of them holds a burning torch under the opening, the other points at the light escaping through a hole in the side- rays of artificial light
[22C21]
- low hill country
[25H114]
- kneeling figure
[31A233]
- drawing, pulling something
[31A2747]
- wooden container: barrel, cask
[41A775]
- torch (+ kindling a light; lit, burning light, lamp, candle)
[41B32(+1)]
- quiver
[45C23]
- Secrecy, Latency, Concealment; 'Secretezza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[52DD1(+4)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(APPARET DISSIMULATUS AMOR)]
- other non-aggressive activities of Cupid
[92D156]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(QUIVER)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(TORCH)]
- companions of Cupid
[92D191]