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Fortior est agitatus amor [59]
Facsimile Images
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Translations
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Liefde die opgejaagd is, is sterker. |
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Love that is assailed is stronger. |
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Seneca, De providentia 4, 16.
Ook een boom wordt alleen maar stevig en sterk als daar dikwijls de wind tegenaan beukt. Want juist door die beproeving zet
hij zich vast en laat hij zijn wortels verder uitlopen.
[tr. C. Verhoeven (Vragen en antwoorden) Baarn 1983, p. 22-23.] |
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Seneca, De providentia 4, 16.
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its
roots more securely.
[tr. J.W. Basore, Loeb, 1, p. 33]. |
Literature
- Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata
, col. 150
- Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, p. 114
- Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 32
Sources and parallels
- The power of love: Een treckt my [3] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
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- Source for the motto and pictura of: Agitatus fortior [43] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))
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- Fortior est agitatus Amor [35] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
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- Praz compares this emblem to: Alciato, Book of Emblems, embl. 42
- Ayres, Emblemata amatoria, embl. 21
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Parallel (and probably source) for the emblem (motto, latin subscriptio and pictura): Mes pleurs mon feu decelent [3] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601))
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Parallel for the pictura (mirrored) and the Latin motto (partly) in: Des Vents qui soufflent contre un Arbre, & qui ne le peuvent terrasser (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
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Pictura mirrored, different motto and Latin subscriptio:Confirmant adversa animos. [21] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
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Buschoff 2004, p. 116. Pictura similar in foreground, but here as a symbol for joy and pain in love:Zy druckt en heft [6] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Confirmant adversa animos. [21] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
- Des Vents qui soufflent contre un Arbre, & qui ne le peuvent terrasser (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
- Een treckt my [3] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
- Zy druckt en heft [6] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
- Mes pleurs mon feu decelent [3] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601))
- Agitatus fortior [43] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))
- Fortior est agitatus Amor [35] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
Iconclass
A cupid holding a tree while the wind is blowing- trees (+ plants used symbolically)
[25G3(+1)]
- river
[25H213]
- landscape with tower or castle
[25I5]
- storm on land
[26C31]
- face
[31A2211]
- pushing something
[31A2748]
- cheeks rounded
[31B6241]
- quiver
[45C23]
- Strength, Power; 'Fortezza', 'Fortezza d'Animo e di corpo', 'Fortezza del corpo congiunta con la generosité dell'animo', 'Fortezza
& valore del corpo congiunto con la prudenza & virtù del animo', 'Forza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[54A7(+4):56F2(+4)]
- Reciprocal Action (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[54EE11(+4):54F13(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(FORTIOR EST AGITATUS AMOR)]
- other non-aggressive activities of Cupid
[92D156]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(QUIVER)]