Emblem Books Otto van Veen



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-century audience. few examples of these mottoes read: wished warre: woundes lovers give willingly receaved... goes on quote cicero , seneca on theme , depicts 2 cupids exchanging arrows. example familiar today story of tortoise , hare (originally fable aesop), titled perseverance winneth: hare , tortes layd wager of speed ... shows cupid , tortoise outpacing hare , exemplifying idea love steady , constant win race.








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