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Pectus meum amoris scopus [77]
Facsimile Images
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Translations
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Mijn borst is Amors doelwit. |
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My breast is Amor's target. |
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Dit is uw doel, Cupido, richt al uw pijlen hierheen, want mijn borst licht ongewapend open voor verwonding. De hongerige gier
brengt Tityus niet zoveel wonden toe als uw pijlen mijn vlees hebben gegeven. |
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This is your target, Cupid, direct all your arrows here, for my breast unarmed lies open to be wounded. The hungry vulture
does not inflict as many wounds to Tityus as your arrows have given to my flesh. |
Literature
- Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery
, p. 105
- Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 37
Sources and parallels
- Pectus meum Amoris scopus [44] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
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- Parallel for the pictura in: Vulnus amoris. [22] (in: anonymous, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1628))
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- Ayres, Emblemata amatoria, embl. 19
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Same motto, pictura shows nature with castle in background: Pectus meum Amoris scopus. [18] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
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Porteman 1975, p. 212. Slightly altered pictura in:Vulnus Amoris [62] (in: Ludovicus van Leuven, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1629))
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Buschoff 2004, p. 115, note 712. Only the subscriptio shows a similarity, in a way that wisdom and love do not go
together:Amor cæcus. [15] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
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Cupid wounding lover's heart in: Pennas perdidit ille suas. [13] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Vulnus amoris. [22] (in: anonymous, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1628))
- Pectus meum Amoris scopus. [18] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
- Amor cæcus. [15] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido (1613))
- Pennas perdidit ille suas. [13] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
- Amor cæcus. [15] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
- Pectus meum Amoris scopus [44] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
Iconclass
Cupid aims his arrows at the target drawn on the chest of a lover who leans against a wall- landscape with tower or castle
[25I5]
- violent death by arrow(s) - EE - death not certain; wounded person
[31EE23461]
- awakening love (+ variant)
[33C218(+0)]
- target (~ sharpshooting)
[43C424]
- archer's weapons: arrow (+ handling of weapons)
[45C15(ARROW)(+63)]
- archer's weapons: bow (+ handling of weapons)
[45C15(BOW)(+63)]
- quiver
[45C23]
- Purpose, Aim (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[54C12(+4)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(PECTUS MEUM AMORIS SCOPUS)]
- Cupid shooting a dart
[92D1521]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(ARROW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(BOW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(QUIVER)]