veen, otto van. amorum emblemata... emblemes of love, verses in latin, english, , italian. antwerp: [typis henrici swingenii] venalia apud auctorem, 1608. veen, otto van. amorum emblemata... emblemes of love, verses in latin, english, , italian. antwerp: [typis henrici swingenii] venalia apud auctorem, 1608. increasingly, van veen active in producing emblem books, including quinti horatii flacci emblemata (1607), amorum emblemata (1608), , amoris divini emblemata (1615). in these works, van veen s skills artist , learned humanist on display. amorum emblemata, example, pictures 124 putti, or little cupids, enacting mottoes , quotations lyricists, philosophers, , ancient writers on powers of love. van veen s emblems tina montone has written, in course of seventeenth century amorum emblemata become 1 of influential books of time, functioning not model other dutch , foreign emblem books, source of inspiration many artists in other fields. of these emblems relevant today have seventeenth...