Title
Death stealing Cupid's arrows, by Richer (1584)
Description
In the first illustration, a woman appears lying with her hand over her stomach, as if she was dying. Death, represented by a skeleton with a robe and hair is trying to steal Cupid's arrows, represented by a winged cherub with a bow. In the second and third images, the woman also appears dead on a side and death, represented as a skeleton, targets another person. Unlike in the first image, the skeleton's long hair feminizes death in the second and third images.
Creator
Image 1: Richer, Jean (Unknown)
Image 2: Alciato, Andrea (1492-1550)
Image 3: López, Diego (-1655)
Image 2: Alciato, Andrea (1492-1550)
Image 3: López, Diego (-1655)
Source
Image 1:
Emblematica Online - Resources for Emblem Studies.
http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/oebp/ui/#/results?ekeywords=death&tab=emblemdetail&eskip=0&emblemid=FALc154&bookid=FALc
Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200924231400/http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/images/pic_l/FALc154.jpg
Image from Andrea Alciato's Emblemata, Paris Edition, by Richer, Jean (1584). De Morte & Amore. EMBLEMA CLIIII.
http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/emblem.php?id=FALc154
Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130708113217/http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/emblem.php?id=FALc154
Image 2:
Emblem 66 in Los Emblemas de Alciato. Traducidos en rhimas Españolas. Añadidos de figuras y de nuevos Emblemas en la tercera parte de la obra. Dirigidos al Illustre S. Iuan Vázquez de Molina ("Alciato's emblems. Traduced in Spanish rhymes. Added figures and new Emblems in the third part of the work. Addressed to Illustrious S. Iuan Vázquez de Molina") by Alciato (1549), Lion: printed by Guillermo Rovilio.
Found in Digital Library of Hispanic Emblems (Biblioteca Digital de Emblemática Hispánica):
https://www.bidiso.es/EmblematicaHispanica/FindConditionalDigitizedEmblemPage.do?action=Search&startIndex=1&count=3&first=2&author=Todos+los+autores&briefTitle=Todas+las+obras&startIndexEmblem=1&startIndexPage=1&mote=&moteCondition=Algunas&images=Muerte%2fPersonificaciones%2fAlegorizaciones&imageCondition=&versesType=&strophe=&language=&keyCondition=Algunas&keys=&authorityCondition=Algunas&authorities=&nameCondition=Algunas&names=
Image 3:
Emblem 154 in Declaración magistral sobre las emblemas de Andrés Alciato con todas las historias, antigüedades, moralidad, y doctrina tocante a las buenas costumbres ("Masterly declaration on the emblems of Andrés Alciato with all the stories, antiquities, morality, and doctrine regarding good manners") by Lopez (1615), Nájera: printed by Iuan De Mongastón
Found in Digital Library of Hispanic Emblems (Biblioteca Digital de Emblemática Hispánica):
https://www.bidiso.es/EmblematicaHispanica/FindConditionalDigitizedEmblemPage.do?action=Search&startIndex=2&count=3&first=1&author=Todos+los+autores&briefTitle=Todas+las+obras&startIndexEmblem=1&startIndexPage=1&mote=&moteCondition=Algunas&images=Muerte%2fPersonificaciones%2fAlegorizaciones&imageCondition=&versesType=&strophe=&language=&keyCondition=Algunas&keys=&authorityCondition=Algunas&authorities=&nameCondition=Algunas&names=
Emblematica Online - Resources for Emblem Studies.
http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/oebp/ui/#/results?ekeywords=death&tab=emblemdetail&eskip=0&emblemid=FALc154&bookid=FALc
Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200924231400/http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/images/pic_l/FALc154.jpg
Image from Andrea Alciato's Emblemata, Paris Edition, by Richer, Jean (1584). De Morte & Amore. EMBLEMA CLIIII.
http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/emblem.php?id=FALc154
Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130708113217/http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/emblem.php?id=FALc154
Image 2:
Emblem 66 in Los Emblemas de Alciato. Traducidos en rhimas Españolas. Añadidos de figuras y de nuevos Emblemas en la tercera parte de la obra. Dirigidos al Illustre S. Iuan Vázquez de Molina ("Alciato's emblems. Traduced in Spanish rhymes. Added figures and new Emblems in the third part of the work. Addressed to Illustrious S. Iuan Vázquez de Molina") by Alciato (1549), Lion: printed by Guillermo Rovilio.
Found in Digital Library of Hispanic Emblems (Biblioteca Digital de Emblemática Hispánica):
https://www.bidiso.es/EmblematicaHispanica/FindConditionalDigitizedEmblemPage.do?action=Search&startIndex=1&count=3&first=2&author=Todos+los+autores&briefTitle=Todas+las+obras&startIndexEmblem=1&startIndexPage=1&mote=&moteCondition=Algunas&images=Muerte%2fPersonificaciones%2fAlegorizaciones&imageCondition=&versesType=&strophe=&language=&keyCondition=Algunas&keys=&authorityCondition=Algunas&authorities=&nameCondition=Algunas&names=
Image 3:
Emblem 154 in Declaración magistral sobre las emblemas de Andrés Alciato con todas las historias, antigüedades, moralidad, y doctrina tocante a las buenas costumbres ("Masterly declaration on the emblems of Andrés Alciato with all the stories, antiquities, morality, and doctrine regarding good manners") by Lopez (1615), Nájera: printed by Iuan De Mongastón
Found in Digital Library of Hispanic Emblems (Biblioteca Digital de Emblemática Hispánica):
https://www.bidiso.es/EmblematicaHispanica/FindConditionalDigitizedEmblemPage.do?action=Search&startIndex=2&count=3&first=1&author=Todos+los+autores&briefTitle=Todas+las+obras&startIndexEmblem=1&startIndexPage=1&mote=&moteCondition=Algunas&images=Muerte%2fPersonificaciones%2fAlegorizaciones&imageCondition=&versesType=&strophe=&language=&keyCondition=Algunas&keys=&authorityCondition=Algunas&authorities=&nameCondition=Algunas&names=
Date
Image 1: 1584
Image 2: 1549
Image 3: 1615
Image 2: 1549
Image 3: 1615
Format
Emblem.
Dimensions: Unknown
Dimensions: Unknown
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