Geffrey Whitney, A choice of emblemes (Leiden, 1586)

Emblem 136

Cupid and Death mistakenly shoot each other's arrows: Death stimulates an old man to love again, Cupid kills a young lover

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Related emblem in another book: embmne_mig1591_emblem154

Iconclass

• 25G13 groups of plants (herbs)
• 25I9 landscape with ruins
• 26A clouds
• 29A1 'mundus inversus', the reversed world, the topsy-turvy world, 'le monde bestourné'
• 31AA140 allegorical representation of human figure of ideal proportions - AA - female human figure of ideal proportions; 'Bellezza feminile' (Ripa)
• 31A2321 leaning forward
• 31A236 lying figure
• 31A247 looking over the shoulder
• 31A2511 arm raised upward
• 31A2512 arm stretched forward
• 31A2512(+933) arm stretched forward (+ holding something)
• 31A2513 arm stretched sidewards
• 31A2515 arm held downwards
• 31A2541 gripping someone by the arm
• 31A2612(+56) both legs bent (+ lying)
• 31A2711 walking
• 31AA2711 walking - AA - female human figure
• 31A2762 flying
• 31A534 beard
• 31D11221(+89) boy (child between toddler and youth) (+ nude human being)
• 31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden
• 31D14 adult man
• 31D16 old man
• 31D5 young versus old age; young and old
• 31E23461 violent death by arrow(s)
• 31F0
• 31F26 Death as skeleton
• 41D211(+81) dress, gown (+ men's clothes)
• 41D211(+82) dress, gown (+ women's clothes)
• 41D221(+82) head-gear (+ women's clothes)
• 41D223(+81) clothing for the upper part of the body (+ men's clothes)
• 41D231(+81) trousers, breeches (+ men's clothes)
• 41D263 walking-stick, staff, cane
• 41D27 drapery, draped garment, 'Gewandgebung'
• 45C15(ARROW)(+63) archer's weapons: arrow (+ handling of weapons)
• 45C15(BOW)(+63) archer's weapons: bow (+ handling of weapons)
• 45C23 quiver
• 48C149 ruin of a building ~ architecture
• 56F2(+4) (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 61B2(DYER, Edward)3 historical person (DYER, Edward) - other representations to which the NAME of a historical person may be attached (DYER, Edward)
• 86(DE MORTE ET AMORE: IOCOSUM) proverbs, sayings, etc. (DE MORTE ET AMORE: IOCOSUM)
• 92D15211(+0) Cupid shooting a dart at Venus' order (+ variant)
• 92D18(ARROW) attributes of Cupid: arrow(s)
• 92D18(BOW) attributes of Cupid: bow
• 92D18(QUIVER) attributes of Cupid: quiver
• 92D15211(+0) Cupid shooting a dart at Venus' order (+ variant)
• 92D18(ARROW) attributes of Cupid: arrow(s)
• 92D18(BOW) attributes of Cupid: bow
• 92D18(QUIVER) attributes of Cupid: quiver

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem136
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem136
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667