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Armat spina rosas, mella tegunt apes [81]
Facsimile Images
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160, LDF:
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Translations
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Claudianus, Fescennina dicta Honorio Augusto et Mariae (=Carmina maiora 11-14) 14, 10.
Doornen wapenen de roos en bijen beschermen hun honing. |
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Claudianus, Fescennina dicta Honorio Augusto et Mariae (=Carmina maiora 11-14) 14, 10.
Thorns arm the rose and bees find a defence for their honey. [tr. M. Platnauer, Loeb 1, p. 237] |
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Kijk, terwijl Amor met zijn nagels een zoete roos plukt uit een rosarium, doen zijn vingers pijn, gewond door harde doorns.
Wat minnaar vreugde doet, is maar gering, veel meer is er dat pijn doet en de scherpe punten die treffen, druipen van gal. |
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Look, while Amor picks a sweet rose from a rose-garden with his nails, his fingers ache, wounded by hard thorns. What pleases
lovers is but small, what hurts is more, and the sharp points that hit drip with much gall. |
Literature
- Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata
, col. 299
- Emblem used as example in: De Jongh, Zinne- en minnebeelden, pp. 27-28
- And in: De Jongh, Portretten van echt en trouw, p. 172
- Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, p. 114
- Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 38
- Bath, Honey and Gall, p. 74
Sources and parallels
- Armat spina rosas, mella tegunt apes [46] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
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- Ayres, Emblemata amatoria, embl. 17
- The same theme illustrated with bees: Alciato, Book of Emblems, embl. 112
- Or perhaps: Alciato, Book of Emblems, embl. 113
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Love compared to plucking roses in: VVaerom ghy meer als ick? [9] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
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Same motto, pictura slightly modified: Armat spina Rosas mella tegunt apes. [20] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
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Parallel for the main pictorial elements (mirrored), the Latin motto and the French motto (not exact) in: Un Amour qui cueille des Fleurs au milieu d’un Buisson (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Quod iuvat exiguum est. [19] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
- Armat spina Rosas mella tegunt apes. [20] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
- Un Amour qui cueille des Fleurs au milieu d’un Buisson (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
- VVaerom ghy meer als ick? [9] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
- Armat spina rosas, mella tegunt apes [46] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
Iconclass
A cupid picks a flower from a rose-bush- shrubs: rose-bush
[25G31(ROSE-BUSH)+222)]
- flowers: rose
[25G41(ROSE)]
- mountains
[25H11]
- landscape with tower or castle
[25I5]
- picking flowers
[43B144]
- quiver
[45C23]
- Pleasure, Enjoyment, Joy; 'Allegrezza', 'Allegrezza da le medaglie', 'Allegrezza, letitia e giubilo', 'Diletto', 'Piacere',
'Piacere honesto' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[56B1(+4)]
- Pain, Sorrow, Sadness; 'Dolore', 'Dolore di Zeusi' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[56BB1(+4)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(ARMA SPINA ROSAS, MELLA TEGUM APES)]
- Cupid stung by a bee while stealing honey, or while picking a rose; 'l'Amour piqué'
[92D162]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(QUIVER)]