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Expoliatio amoris. [25]
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Remake of image, not mirrored, slight difference in the spelling of motto (Expoliatio/Expolitio), in: Expolitio Amoris [53] (in: Ludovicus van Leuven, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1629))
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- Expolitio Amoris [53] (in: Ludovicus van Leuven, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1629))
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Sacred love is holding a heart against a grindstone while the soul is pouring water over it- God's perfections
[11A23]
- water (one of the four elements)
[21D]
- radiance emanating from persons or things
[22C31]
- heart
[31A2221]
- sitting on an elevation
[31A2352]
- adult woman
[31D15]
- the soul during lifetime
[31G1]
- container of metal: bucket, can, canister, drum, tin
[41A771]
- polishing (industrial process)
[47C511]
- sharpening, grinding (industrial processes)
[47C55]
- pouring (industrial process)
[47C611]
- machine driven by human or animal power
[47D2]
- tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: grindstone
[47D8(GRINDSTONE)]
- Imperfection, Incompleteness; 'Imperfettione' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[51AA7(+4)]
- Completion (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[54D3(+4)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ clothed)
[56F2(+123)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(EXPOLLIATIO AMORIS)]