Allegory of poetry and painting Title page for Cesare Ripa, Iconologia or uytbeeldingen understanding, 1644 Allegory of poetry and painting title page: Cesare Ripa, Iconologia or uytbeeldingen understanding, 1644 Object Type : print title pages Object number: RP-P-1884-A-7928Catalogusreferentie: Hollstein Dutch 66 Inscriptions / Brands: collector's mark, verso bottom center, stamped: Lugt 2228opschrift, under verso, handwritten in brown ink: "This work [...] forty-four." (on separate slip.) Description: Minerva, Apollo and Mercury, sitting on clouds. Underneath a framework titled in Dutch, fla
Allegory of poetry and painting Title page for Cesare Ripa, Iconologia or uytbeeldingen understanding, 1644 Allegory of poetry and painting title page: Cesare Ripa, Iconologia or uytbeeldingen understanding, 1644 Object Type : print title pages Object number: RP-P-1884-A-7928Catalogusreferentie: Hollstein Dutch 66 Inscriptions / Brands: collector's mark, verso bottom center, stamped: Lugt 2228opschrift, under verso, handwritten in brown ink: "This work [...] forty-four." (on separate slip.) Description: Minerva, Apollo and Mercury, sitting on clouds. Underneath a framework titled in Dutch, flanked by the Poetry and Painting. When the painting is a cloth tied to the mouth (painting poem as stupid). This refers to Horace 'Ut pictura poesis (poetry is like painting). Underneath the portrait of the Italian writer Cesare Ripa. He wears a chain with the Order of the Holy Geest. Manufacturer : printmaker: Reinier van Persijn (listed property) designed by: Adriaen van Nieulandt (I) (listed building) publisher: Dirck Pietersz Pers (listed property) Place Manufacture: Amsterdam Date: 1644 Physical features: car material: paper Technique: engra (printing process) Dimensions: plate edge: h 207 mm × W 157 mmToelichtingTitelpagina for: Ripa, Cesare, Iconologia or uytbeeldingen of understanding [Translated from the Italian by] Dirck Pietersz. Press. Amsterdam: Jacob Lescaille / Dirck Pietersz. Press, 1644. Subject: (story of) Mercury (Hermes) (story of) Apollo (Phoebus) (story of) Minerva (Pallas Athena) symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ poetry; 'Poesia' (RIPA) 'Pictura', symbolic representations, ALLEGORIES and emblems ~ painting; "Pittura '(Ripa) portrait of a writer knighthood order of the Holy SpiritWie Cesare Ripa
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