Cupid and winged death shooting arrows, by Alciato (1549)

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Title

Cupid and winged death shooting arrows, by Alciato (1549)

Description

This emblem shows cupid, represented by a winged child, and death, represented by a winged skeleton, shooting arrows to people on the ground. We can see a man standing on the left and a woman having been shot on the floor, in the centre an old man and a child and on the right a man.

The emblem also shows that death, whose gender is in itself ambiguous, does not distinguish genres, like love, which is identified as a minimally sexed child.

Creator

Alciato, Andrea (1492-1550)
Daza, Bernardino (translator) (1528- c. 1576)

Source

Emblematica Online - Resources for Emblem Studies.
http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/oebp/ui/#/results?ekeywords=death&tab=emblemdetail&eskip=72&emblemid=A49a065&bookid=A49a

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Image De la Muerte y d’el Amor (p. F5rp89) from the book Los Emblemas (1549) translated edition by Bernardino Daza to Spanish of Emblematum liber or Emblemata by Alciato, first published in 1531 and 1534.
From Glasgow University Library: SM32
http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/emblem.php?id=A49a065

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Date

1549

Relation

These emblems also show that death, whose gender is in itself ambiguous, does not distinguish genres, like love, which is identified as a minimally sexed child.

Winged death and Cupid shooting arrows, by Alciato and Lopez (1615)

Death stealing Cupid's arrows, by Richer (1584)

Death and cupid firing arrows while flying, by Alciato (1621)

Format

Emblem.
Dimensions: Unknown

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