Title print of the series about the seven planets and the seven ages, Adriaen Collaert, After Maerten de Vos, 1581 print In an oval the Latin title, description and the address of the publisher. On either side of the oval the four personifications of the four temperaments and the symbols for the four elements. At the top right of Venus as a Sanguis, at the top left Diana as Phlegma, below an older nun as Melancolia and below Minerva as Cholera. Between these allegorical figures four cartouches with the symbolic animals of the four elements: the chameleon stands for air, the dolphin for water,
Title print of the series about the seven planets and the seven ages, Adriaen Collaert, After Maerten de Vos, 1581 print In an oval the Latin title, description and the address of the publisher. On either side of the oval the four personifications of the four temperaments and the symbols for the four elements. At the top right of Venus as a Sanguis, at the top left Diana as Phlegma, below an older nun as Melancolia and below Minerva as Cholera. Between these allegorical figures four cartouches with the symbolic animals of the four elements: the chameleon stands for air, the dolphin for water, the mole for earth and the salamander for fire. The print is the title print of a series about the power of the seven planets about the seven ages of man. Antwerp paper engraving air (one of the four elements). earth (one of the four elements). fire (one of the four elements). water (one of the four elements). choleric temperament. sanguine temperament. phlegmatic temperament. melancholic temperament
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