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In formosam fato praereptam.[1]
On a beautiful woman, dead before her time
EMBLEMA CLV.
Cur puerum Mors ausa dolis es carpere Amorem?
Tela tua ut iaceret, dum propria esse putat?
Death, why did you so audaciously and with evil intent steal from the boy Love? - So that he might shoot your weapons, thinking them his own?
1. The iconography of the emblems ‘De morte et amore’ (previous emblem) and ‘In formosam fato praereptam’ is confused in many editions.
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- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man [31D14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult woman [31D15] Search | Browse Iconclass
- animals (+ wings of an animal) [25F(+342)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- archer's weapons: arrow (+ handling of weapons) [45C15(ARROW)(+63)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- archer's weapons: bow (+ handling of weapons) [45C15(BOW)(+63)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held backwards (+ holding something) [31A2514(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ holding something) [31A2512(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched sidewards [31A2513] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(ARROW)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beard [31A534] Search | Browse Iconclass
- boy (child between toddler and youth) (+ nude human being) [31D11221(+89)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clothing for the upper part of the body [41D223] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Cupid shooting a dart at Venus' order (+ variant) [92D15211(+0)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Death as (rotting) corpse [31F25] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Death with bow and arrow ®® KEY (3) TO 31F2 personifications of Death; 'Morte' (Ripa) [31F2(+3)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown [41D211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown (+ men's clothes) [41D211(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- flying [31A2762] Search | Browse Iconclass
- landscape with ruins [25I9] Search | Browse Iconclass
- landscape with tower or castle [25I5] Search | Browse Iconclass
- leaning forward [31A2321] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking over the shoulder [31A247] Search | Browse Iconclass
- low hill country [25H114] Search | Browse Iconclass
- old man [31D16] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sitting or lying with bent legs drawn up or raised [31A26128] Search | Browse Iconclass
- symbols and personifications of Death [31F0] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trousers, breeches [41D231] Search | Browse Iconclass
- violent death by arrow(s) [31E23461] Search | Browse Iconclass
- walking [31A2711] Search | Browse Iconclass
- walking-stick, staff [41D263] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- death of human being [3.10E+01] Search | Browse Iconclass
- female sex; woman [31A72] Search | Browse Iconclass
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