Personification of painting on a pedestal, Arnold Houbraken, 1688 - 1700 print Personified painting is on a piercing stable on which the serial title in six lines in Dutch. She cannot speak through the cloth that is bound in front of her mouth, so that one has to see what she portrays. Behind her is the ignorance with donkey ears, which blindly taunts painting. Behind ignorance the envy. However, painting shows her work on the personalized speech. Four putti surround the pedestal. Title print of part 2 of a series of prints with emblems, in total consisting of three parts with 23, 17 and 20 pr
Personification of painting on a pedestal, Arnold Houbraken, 1688 - 1700 print Personified painting is on a piercing stable on which the serial title in six lines in Dutch. She cannot speak through the cloth that is bound in front of her mouth, so that one has to see what she portrays. Behind her is the ignorance with donkey ears, which blindly taunts painting. Behind ignorance the envy. However, painting shows her work on the personalized speech. Four putti surround the pedestal. Title print of part 2 of a series of prints with emblems, in total consisting of three parts with 23, 17 and 20 prints respectively. Dordrecht paper etching / engraving 'Picture', Symbolic Repres invention, Allegories and Emblems ~ Painting; 'Painting' (Ripa). Cupids: 'Amores', 'Amoretti', 'Putti'. Envy; 'Envy' (Ripa) ~ Personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Reason; 'Raying' (Ripa) (+ abstract concept repriation from female figures). Ignorance; 'Ignorance', 'ignorance of all things', 'ignorance in a wealthy without letters' (Ripa)
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Photo credit: © piemags/rmn / Alamy / Afripics
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