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1531 German book of emblems
The Emblemata, or Emblematum liber first appeared in Augsburg (Germany) in 1531 under the title Viri Clarissimi D. Andreae Alciati Iurisconsultiss. Mediol
Emblemata
Dutch painter, draughtsman and humanist (1556-1629)
including Quinti Horatii Flacci emblemata (1607), Amorum emblemata (1608), the Amoris divini emblemata (1615) and the Emblemata sive symbola (1624). In these
Otto_van_Veen
Ancient Athenian, wife of Socrates
An emblem book print portraying Xanthippe emptying a chamber pot over Socrates, from Emblemata Horatiana illustrated by Otho Vaenius, 1607.
Xanthippe
Second-largest city in Italy
ancient emblem of the city, fancifully accounted for in Andrea Alciato's Emblemata (1584), beneath a woodcut of the first raising of the city walls, where
Milan
Enchantress-goddess in Greek mythology
emblematist Andrea Alciato, it was unchastity. In the second edition of his Emblemata (1546), therefore, Circe became the type of the prostitute. His Emblem
Circe
Ancient Greek goddess of love
leave to those who care to guess", Pausanias remarks. Andrea Alciato, Emblemata / Les emblemes (1584). Cyrino 2010, p. 39. Cyrino 2010, pp. 39–40. "Mechaneus"
Aphrodite
Reigning house of the Kingdom of Spain
Fernández-Xesta y Vázquez, Ernesto (2012). "La heráldica familiar" (PDF). Emblemata (in Spanish). 18: 253. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 July 2025
House_of_Bourbon-Anjou
Book collecting allegorical illustrations with explanatory text
such as Aesop's Fables and Plutarch's Lives. But if someone asks me what Emblemata really are? I will reply to him, that they are mute images, and nevertheless
Emblem_book
1624 emblem book by Johan de Brune
The Emblemata of Zinne-werck is an emblem book, with text (in poetry and prose) by the Dutch poet Johan de Brune [nl] and engravings by Adriaen van de
Emblemata_of_Zinne-werck
Ancient Greek moral anecdote
Scotland, UK: Glasgow University. emblem 45. Hollar, Wenceslaus (n.d.). Emblemata Nova. London, UK. Hobbes, Thomas (1651). Philosophicall Rudiments Concerning
Sword_of_Damocles
Pictorial image that epitomizes a concept or that represents a person
entities. The 1531 publication in Augsburg of the first emblem book, the Emblemata of the Italian jurist Andrea Alciato launched a fascination with emblems
Emblem
Italian jurist and writer (1492–1550)
royal pension of 400 livres tournois. Alciati is most famous for his Emblemata, published in dozens of editions from 1531 onward. This collection of
Andrea_Alciato
Void state preceding creation
geometry and optics in late Renaissance alchemical illustration. Symbola et Emblemata – Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Symbolism. Vol. 10. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-11690-0
Chaos_(cosmogony)
Fable
emblem books were to give the theme new interpretations. Jan Sadeler's Emblemata evangelica ad XII signa coelestia (Antwerp, 1585) pictures the pair crossing
The_Blind_Man_and_the_Lame
1779 work by Ignacy Krasicki
"The Blind Man and the Lame", from de Bry's Emblemata saecularia, 1596
Fables_and_Parables
Greek mythological artefact
revisited by two immensely influential writers, Andrea Alciato in his Emblemata (1534) and the Neo-Latin poet Gabriele Faerno in his collection of a hundred
Pandora's_box
Hungarian scholar
Nagyszombat). He was the composer of the most renowned emblem book in Hungary: Emblemata cum aliquot nummis antiqui operis (1564). Sambucus' emblem book was edited
János_Zsámboky
Dutch merchant and underwriter
also wrote emblemata. The emblemata is a genre in which pictures are accompanied by one or two rhyming sentences. An example of the emblemata is Visschers
Roemer_Visscher
West Asian fable
accompanied what was to become Emblem 125 (on brief happiness) in his Emblemata. A translation of this runs: 'A gourd is said to have sprung up close
The_Gourd_and_the_Palm-tree
Capital of Aragon, Spain
un labrador de la parroquia de San Pablo de Zaragoza en 1767" (PDF). Emblemata. Revista Aragonesa de Emblemática. 5: 221–256. ISSN 1137-1056. Sotelo
Zaragoza
German theologian and writer (1568–1637)
Jesus and the Rosy Cross (1617). It was reprinted with different titles: Emblemata sacra (1624), and Emblematum sacrorum (1627), composed with the academic
Daniel_Cramer
Traditional mosaic technique
techniques were often combined, with small panels of opus vermiculatum called emblemata at the centre of a larger design in opus tessellatum. The tiny tesserae
Opus_tessellatum
Variations on the religious symbol through Christian history
Rafael, "La bula de plomo de los reyes de Aragón y la cruz «de Alcoraz»", Emblemata, XI (2005), pp. 59–82 ISSN 1137-1056. "The Cathedral of Oviedo". Asturias
Christian_cross_variants
Dutch painter, draughtsman and engraver
emblem books of his brother Otto: Amorum emblemata, figuris Aeneis incisa (1608), and the Amoris divini emblemata (1615). "Gysbert van Veen on Ecartico"
Gijsbert_van_Veen
English idiom meaning "to die"
Alciato phrased it in the Latin poem accompanying the drawing in his Emblemata (1524), "Because you have spoilt your fine beginnings with a shameful
Kick_the_bucket
Figure from Greek mythology
non-ancient depictions of Ganymede is a woodcut from the first edition of Emblemata (c. 1531), which shows the youth riding the eagle as opposed to being
Ganymede_(mythology)
Image made from small colored tiles
an approach to the illusionism of painting. Often small panels called emblemata were inserted into walls or as the highlights of larger floor-mosaics
Mosaic
Preach by António Vieira in Brazil
Minor esca maioris ("The smaller is the prey of the larger"), 1617, by Peter Isselburg (Emblemata Politica In Aula Magna Curiae Noribergensis Depicta)
Sermon of Saint Anthony to the Fish
Sermon_of_Saint_Anthony_to_the_Fish
Athenian general and politician (c. 440 – 388 BC)
successful campaign against the Thirty Tyrants. From Andrea Alciato's Emblemata. Born c. 455–441 BC Died 388 BC (aged 53–67) Aspendos (modern-day Serik
Thrasybulus
19th-century Scottish writer and politician 1818-1878)
printed, 1860) Ut Pictura Poesis, or An Attempt to Explain in Verse The Emblemata Horatiana of Otho Vaenius (privately printed, 1875), contributed the Bibliography
Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet
Sir_William_Stirling-Maxwell,_9th_Baronet
1701–1714 European great power conflict
Fernández-Xesta y Vázquez, Ernesto (2012). "La Heráldica Familiar" (PDF). Emblemata (in Spanish). 18: 243–257. Francis, David (May 1965). "Portugal and the
War_of_the_Spanish_Succession
1597 1605: Jan van Ghelen, Baghijnken van Parijs 1607: Otto van Veen, Emblemata Horatiana (2 editions: 1607 and 1612; republished in Spanish by next generations
Verdussen_family
Fable by Aesop
slowly' (festina lente) was recommended to lovers by Otto van Veen in his Emblemata Amorum (1608), using a relation of the story. There, the infant figure
The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare
Aesop's fable
Pisanello pictures a lion fawning on winged Cupid. This was reprised in the Emblemata amatoria (1607/8) of Daniël Heinsius as a Cupid astride a rampant lion
The_Lion_in_Love_(fable)
y García Loygorri, Fernando. "El escudo grande de Carlos III" (PDF). Emblemata (II (1996)): 249–258. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 November
Coat_of_arms_of_Spain
Socialist and social democratic symbol
Sazatornil, Gema (2010). "Medios de comunicación y emblemática contemporánea". Emblemata: Revista aragonesa de emblemática (in Spanish). 16. Zaragoza: Institución
Fist_and_rose
an approach to the illusionism of painting. Often small panels called emblemata were inserted into walls or as the highlights of larger floor-mosaics
Ancient_Roman_architecture
Festival of Aphrodite
Library Lucian, Dial. Meret. 7; comp. Xenoph. Sympos. Andrea Alciato, Emblemata / Les emblemes (1584). Walker, Henry J., Theseus and Athens, Oxford University
Aphrodisia
Heraldic symbol
Magistrate’s Table of the Territorial Hearing of Zaragoza (19th c.)] (PDF). Emblemata-Revista aragonesa de emblematica. 11: 231. ISSN 1137-1056. Old Teruel
Bat_(heraldry)
Fable by Aesop
of self-preservation. The Latin poem beneath the illustration in his Emblemata (1531) counsels, "By the example of this animal, learn not to spare your
The_Beaver_(fable)
Upper-Class Private Residence in Pompeii with preserved artworks
Natural History xxxv. 10.36§ 22. Westgate, Ruth (2000). "Pavimenta Atque Emblemata Vermiculata: Regional Styles in Hellenistic Mosaic and the First Mosaics
House_of_the_Faun
Metaphor about spitefulness
praesepio, poem 67 Mythologia Ethica pp. 68–69 Choice of Emblemes, p. 184 XL emblemata miscella nova, Emblem 22 "76. A Dog in a Manger (Sir Roger L'Estrange)"
The_Dog_in_the_Manger
Roman Catholic veneration of Mary
Symbolic Scores: Studies in the Music of the Renaissance. Symbola et emblemata: studies in Renaissance and baroque symbolism. Vol. 5 (Illustrated ed
Veneration of Mary in the Catholic Church
Veneration_of_Mary_in_the_Catholic_Church
Heraldic emblem
] (PDF). Emblemata. Retrieved April 25, 2024. CONDE, Rafael , en "La bula de plomo de los reyes de Aragón y la cruz «de Alcoraz»", Emblemata, XI (2005)
Cross_of_Alcoraz
Animal trap used to catch and kill mice
the trapper's discretion. A historical reference is found in Alciatis Emblemata from 1534. Several trap designs were described by Leonard Mascall in 1590
Mousetrap
Art style
erudite could be embodied in schemes of grottesche, Andrea Alciato's Emblemata (1522) offered ready-made iconographic shorthand for vignettes. More familiar
Grotesque
Celtic god of eloquence
"astonishingly rich". Such sources such as Andrea Alciato's much-read Emblemata and the mythographies of Annius of Viterbo and Natalis Comes popularised
Ogmios
Style of mosaic from the Roman period
doi:10.1016/j.jas.2009.07.008. Westgate, Ruth (2000), "Pavimenta atque emblemata vermiculata: Regional Styles in Hellenistic Mosaic and the First Mosaics
Roman_mosaic
Spanish diplomat and man of letters
his Emblemata translated in 1549 and that has a mainly moral and philosophical character. His work, however, was mainly inspired by the Emblemata política
Diego_de_Saavedra_Fajardo
1617 emblem book by Michael Maier and Matthias Merian
page. Author Michael Maier Original title Atalanta Fugiens, hoc est, Emblemata Nova de Secretis Naturae Chymica, Accommodata partim oculis et intellectui
Atalanta_Fugiens
Ancient fable and parable
books, beginning with the most popular of them all, Andrea Alciato's Emblemata, in which it figures under the title Amicitia etiam post mortem durans
The_Elm_and_the_Vine
French writer, collector, historian and genealogist
collection of 118 emblems or "devises" and included an attached motto. These emblemata became commonly used as markers or models of royal, aristocratic or moral
Claude_Paradin
gulden cabinet van de edele vry schilder-const (1662). Ebook Amoris diuini emblemata (1615). Ebook New idylles (1776). Ebook Het gulden cabinet van de edele
Julius S. Held Collection of Rare Books
Julius_S._Held_Collection_of_Rare_Books
Spanish philologist and humanist
arte dicendi (1556) Edition and commentary of the Emblemata by Alciati: Comment. in And. Alciati Emblemata: nunc denuò multis in locis accurate recognita
Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas
Francisco_Sánchez_de_las_Brozas
Italian doctor, philosopher and writer (1595-1655)
life, he wrote an emblem book, Cardiomorphoseos, sive ex corde desumpta emblemata sacra (1645), called by a leading scholar "a point of suture between Renaissance
Francesco_Pona
Dutch publisher
many works, mostly of strict Reformed nature, including Johan de Brune's Emblemata of Zinne-werck. He was buried in the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam on 3 October
Jan_Evertsen_Cloppenburgh
which were left unfinished at his father's death. He also published 'Emblemata secularia,' 1596, and added considerably to the collection of Portraits
Johann_Theodor_de_Bry
Flemish painter
Borcht made the drawings but not the woodcuts for an emblem book (the Emblemata of Sambucus) for Plantin. This was followed by a commission in 1565 to
Pieter van der Borcht the Elder
Pieter_van_der_Borcht_the_Elder
Ploweman unto Christe (first printing), Discourses on Livy (Machiavelli); Emblemata 1532 in literature – The Prince (Machiavelli) 1533 in literature – Three
List_of_years_in_literature
Fable by Aesop
The fable was revived in Renaissance times by Andrea Alciato in his Emblemata under the heading Non tibi sed religioni (not for your sake but religion's)
The_Ass_Carrying_an_Image
French printer, book publisher and bookseller (1504–1564)
Martin Guerre affair (1561). Illustrated books from his press include the Emblemata of Andrea Alciati (1547), Aesop's Fables (1547), the Quadrins historiques
Jean_de_Tournes_(1504–1564)
North Italian fable
Murer under the title of Libido Vindictae (desire for vengeance) in XL emblemata miscella nova, which was posthumously published in 1620. He also noted
The_Bear_and_the_Bees
Bronze tablet of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Museo Egizio. 7: 34–35. doi:10.29353/rime.2023.4878. Robin Raybould, Emblemata: Symbolic Literature of the Renaissance, Grollier Club, New York 2009
Bembine_Tablet
German physician, alchemist and composer (1568–1622)
edited by Simon Brandl and Volkhard Wels, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. "The Emblemata of the Atalanta Fugiens" - A webinar about Michael Maier on the website
Michael_Maier
Fable
reports it as happening recently in the Dutch town of Bergen op Zoom in his Emblemata (1564). The Latin poem there continues, 'A small monkey gave us an example
The_Monkey_and_the_Cat
Visscher (died 1620), Dutch merchant and writer, especially of epigrams and emblemata Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January
1547_in_poetry
Two men from ancient Athens
Adams, Charles Darwin. Harvard University Press. Alciato, Andrea (1531). Emblemata. p. Emblema XIII. Aristotle (1952). Athenian Constitution. Translated
Harmodius_and_Aristogeiton
Painting by Johannes Vermeer
to have taken it from a 1636 emblem book by the Jesuit Willem Hesius, Emblemata sacra de fide, spe, charitate. In the emblem, "Capit Quod Non Capit",
The_Allegory_of_Faith
Overview of the events of 1510 in literature
Agrippa – De occulta philosophia libri tres, Book One Andrea Alciato – Emblemata Sir Thomas Elyot – The Boke Named the Governour, the first English work
16th_century_in_literature
City in Slovakia
Latin language poem Tirnaviae patriae meae arma, published in his 1564's Emblemata. In his 1938's adventurous novel Trnava, ruža krvavá (Trnava The Bloody
Trnava
Fable by Aesop
way. In the Renaissance, Andrea Alciato included the story among his Emblemata under the heading Parem delinquentis et suasoris culpam esse (The fault
The_Trumpeter_Taken_Captive
Dutch poet, humorist, jurist and politician (1577–1660)
very complimentary reference to Cats in his Epistle to Allan Cunningham. Emblemata or Minnebeelden with Maegdenplicht (1618) Selfstryt (1620) Houwelick (1625)
Jacob_Cats
Italian printer
and who would hold the monopoly on printing in Peru until 1619. 1577: Emblemata by Andreas Alciatus 1577: Tristes by Ovid 1577: Sermonario en lengua Mexicana
Antonio_Ricardo
Aesop's fable
Emblem books. The earliest of these was Andrea Alciato, whose influential Emblemata was published in many formats and in several countries from 1531 onwards
The_Crow_and_the_Snake
imitation of a woodcut after Lodovico Carracci Twenty-seven plates for the Emblemata moralia aere incisa et versibus italicis explicata (1628) of Paolo Maccio;
Giovanni_Battista_Coriolano
Dutch printer
emblem book, Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus (1618)) Johan de Brune's Emblemata of Zinne-werck, and a great number of publications by Willem Teellinck
Hans_van_der_Hellen
Fable by Aesop
Graeco-Latin Fable III, Leiden NL 2003, p. 700 Text on the Aesopica site Emblemata, emblem 189 Vulpes et Larva, Fable 66 Elizur Wright's translation at Gutenberg
The_Fox_and_the_Mask
Dutch historian and writer (1581–1647)
Granida (1615) Warenar (1616) Baeto, oft oorsprong der Holanderen (1626) Emblemata amatoria: afbeeldingen van minne (1611) Nederduytsche Historiën (1642-1656)
Pieter_Corneliszoon_Hooft
German philosopher (1547–1606)
felici memoriae dicavit. Nürnberg: Lochner, 1602. at Universität Mannheim Emblemata Physico-Ethica, Hoc Est: naturae morum moderatricis picta præcepta. Nürnberg:
Nicolaus_Taurellus
German poet and writer of emblem books
Iansonium, 1611 Nvclevs emblematvm selectissimorvm Arnhem, J. Janssoniū, 1613 Emblemata volsinnighe uytbeelsels Arnhem, J. Ianszen, 1615 Wonderbaarlyke en ongeloofelyke
Gabriel_Rollenhagen
Roman floor mosaic
realized in the opus sectile technique. Within these panels are circular emblemata depicting fish and other marine creatures (shrimp, murex, picarel, conger
Zliten_mosaic
Church in Bahia, Brazil
(c.1556 – 6 May 1629), print in the emblem book Quinti Horati Flacci Emblemata, first published in 1607. Some panels correspond directly to prints in
Church and Convent of São Francisco, Salvador
Church_and_Convent_of_São_Francisco,_Salvador
Painting by Peter Paul Rubens
popular emblem book about the "domestication of love," titled, Amorum Emblemata (1608) by Otto van Veen. Also of note that the author of this emblem book
Honeysuckle_Bower
Art movement
laid on site. However, a number of floor mosaics display the use of the emblemata technique, in which panels of the image are created off-site in trays
Hellenistic_art
Official symbol of Smolensk
et Emblemata, 1705 Emblem of the Bird of Paradise with the motto in Latin: Nil terrestre, lit. 'Nothing earthly' from the book Symbola et Emblemata of
Coat_of_arms_of_Smolensk
16th-century Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer and Renaissance humanist
1870, p. 767. Ernestro Fernández-Xesta, "Los Zaporta de Barbastro", in Emblemata: Revista aragonesa de emblemática, Vol. #8, 2002, pp. 103–150. "Capillas
Michael_Servetus
in 1520. A final source for the fables are contemporary emblemata books such as the Emblemata of Andrea Alciato and an emblem of Joannes Sambucus. Illustrations
Marcus_Gheeraerts_the_Elder
Aufl. 1663 mit 450 Gedichten Birkens) Drei-ständige Sonn- und Festtag-Emblemata, hrsg. von D. Peil, Hildesheim 1994 Georg Brückner (1877). "Dilherr, Johann
Johann_Michael_Dilherr
Dutch visual artist (born 1970)
with objects or animals, most notably snakes. Kraijer's works share an emblemata-like concision, showing no more than what is strictly necessary. In each
Juul_Kraijer
Symbol used as a trademark by printers
Scheibe / A. Wolkenhauer, London 2015 (CERL Studies) [1] Typographorum emblemata. The Printer's Mark in the Context of Early Modern Culture, ed by Anja
Printer's_mark
French poet and novelist
Doctrine of Morals") based on Otto van Veen's "Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata" [1607]. Later editions appeared in 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685, and
Marin_le_Roy_de_Gomberville
Genre of ancient Greek poetry
Engraving from Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata, Antwerp 1607, showing Socrates receiving the contents of a chamberpot, and a young man bullying his elders
Iambus_(genre)
English painter
Satisfaction Persuasion (1893) The Pain of Parting (1895) A Carol (1896) Emblemata (1906) Peacemaking (1907) Sigh no more, Ladies (1909) Wikimedia Commons
Laura_Theresa_Alma-Tadema
Aesop's fable
Andrea Alciato. Eventually numbered 193 in the many editions of his Emblemata, it bore the device In fertilitatem sibi ipsi damnosam (fruitful to its
The_Walnut_Tree
ancient emblem of the city, fancifully accounted for in Andrea Alciato's Emblemata (1584), beneath a woodcut of the first raising of the city walls, where
History_of_Milan
Aesop's fable
upon them. A similar design reversed appears in Christoph Murer's XL emblemata miscella nova (1622), with moralising lines that ascribe the tale to Aesop
The_Frog_and_the_Mouse
brothers made business trips. Emblemata sacra passionis salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi, with Lucas Kilian, 1620 Emblemata amoris, Emblem book after works
Raphael_Custos
Dutch purported inventor of printing press
1588, and was quoted by Cornelis de Bie. Now known primarily for his Emblemata, Junius moved to Haarlem in 1550, and wrote several books, acting shortly
Laurens_Janszoon_Coster
Aesop's fable
at my feet. Andrea Alciato coalesces the two in the Latin poem in his Emblemata (1531), which illustrates the theme 'Those who contemplate the heights
The_Fowler_and_the_Snake
Municipality in Andalusia, Spain
antiseñorial de Lucena (Córdoba), a finales de la Edad Moderna" (PDF). Emblemata: Revista aragonesa de emblemática (25). ISSN 1137-1056. One or more of
Lucena,_Córdoba
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Boy/Male
British, English
Brave and Strong
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Brilliant Love
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
Goddess Laxmi; Beautiful Women
Girl/Female
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Peaceful; Born in the First Quarter of an Astrological Day
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained. perhaps a habitational name, from a lost or unidentified place, possibly in Worcestershire, where the surname is frequent.
Male
English
Short form of English Ambrose, BROSE means "immortal."
Female
Italian
Feminine form of Italian Savino, SAVINA means "Sabine; a follower of another religion."
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Surajiv
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Royal White Falcon
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Name of the City in India
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