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De liefde schittert tussen alle deugden.

Love glitters among all virtues

Al ware het, dat ik met de tongen der mensen en der engelen sprak, maar had de liefde niet, ik ware schallend koper of een rinkelende cimbaal.

If I speak with the tongues of humans and of angels, but have no love, I am like resounding bronze, or a rattling cymbal.

Het is alleen de liefde die alles overwint en waarzonder alles niets waard is.

It is only love that conquers all, and without which nothing has any power.

Hoewel het belangrijk is een juist geloof te hebben en de besnijdenis van de vraatzucht, milde zachtmoedigheid en zuivere reinheid zeer loffelijk zijn, toch zijn alle deugden leeg zonder de liefde en niets is vruchtbaar wat niet genegenheid heeft gebaard.

Although it is important to have right faith, and the curbing of gluttony is very praiseworthy, as are an affable meekness and pure chastity, nevertheless without love all virtues are naked. And nothing is fruitful, that does not produce offspring born of love.

Tussen de schone deugden is het licht van de liefde als de zon tussen de sterren.

De liefde, de grootste onder de deugden, neemt tussen hen de eerste plaats in en boven die hele groep draagt en ontvangt zij alleen de lauwerkrans. Want wanneer het geloof en de hoop, de zoetheid en de kuisheid uw hart als woning hadden, het was niets zonder de liefde.

Literature

1. Sebastián, Visión emblemática del amor divino, p. 26

Sources and parallels

• Parallel for the motto: Inter omnes. [34] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616)) [Compare]
• Parallel (and probably source) for the motto and entire emblem: Inter omnes [10] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601)) [Compare]
• Parallel (and probably source) for the motto and entire emblem: Inter omnes [10] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8)) [Compare]
• Similar pictura and motto in: Micat inter omnes Amor virtutes [86] (in: Jan Suderman, De godlievende ziel (1724)) [Compare]
• Pictura remade in: Micat inter omnes Amor virtutes [86] (in: Jan Suderman, De godlievende ziel (1724)) [Compare]

References, across this site, to this page:

• Inter omnes [10] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601))
• Inter omnes [10] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8))
• Inter omnes. [34] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido (1613))
• Inter omnes. [34] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
• Micat inter omnes Amor virtutes [86] (in: Jan Suderman, De godlievende ziel (1724))
• Micat inter omnes Amor virtutes [86] (in: Jan Suderman, De godlievende ziel (1724))

Iconclass

• God's perfections [11A23]
• Faith, 'Fides'; 'Fede', 'Fede catholica', 'Fede christiana', 'Fede christiana catholica' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues [11M31]
• Hope, 'Spes'; 'Speranza divina e certa' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues [11M32]
• Charity, 'Caritas'; 'Carité' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues [11M33]
• Prudence, 'Prudentia'; 'Prudenza' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues [11M41]
• Temperance, 'Temperantia'; 'Temperanza' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues [11M42]
• Fortitude, 'Fortitudo' ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues [11M43]
• Justice, 'Justitia'; 'Giustitia divina' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues [11M44]
• altarcross, crucifix [11Q71423]
• radiance emanating from persons or things [22C31]
• trees: laurel (+ leaf) [25G3(LAUREL)(+27)]
• trees: palm-tree (+ branch, stick) [25G3(PALM-TREE)(+22)]
• clouds [26A]
• hand (+ holding something) [31A2245(+933)]
• sitting on an elevation [31A2352]
• sitting on an elevation - AA - female human figure [31AA2352]
• arms crossed over the breast - AA - female human figure [31AA25212]
• floating in the air (+ variant) [31A2763(+0)]
• mirror [31A511]
• the soul during lifetime [31G1]
• festivities (+ wreath, garland ~ festive activities) [43A(+12)]
• archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
• scales [46B3311]
• bit [46C131612]
• reins [46C131613]
• column, pillar ~ architecture [48C161]
• pedestal of a piece of sculpture (perhaps in the form of a herm) [48C244]
• (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ clothed with wings) [56F2(+1331)]
• (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
• Virtuousness; 'Amor di Virtù', 'Attione virtuosa', 'Guida sicura de' veri honori', 'Virtù', 'Virtù insuperabile' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57A6(+4)]
• proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(MICAT INTER OMNES AMOR VIRTUTES)]

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