Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Bellerophon / Myths / Bellerophon fights the Chimaera / On Pegasus

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Flora and Fauna / Fabulous animals / Chimaera

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Arts / Artes Liberales / Trivium / Rhetorica
Emblems / Cycles (Emblem Books) / Bocchi, Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere, 1555

Further details

Book V, Symbol CXXXVII: Ars rhetor. triplex movet, iuvat, docet, sed praepotens est veritas divinitus. Sic monstra vitior. domat prudentia; based on a medal of Lucius Verus, see Seb. Erizzo, Discorso sopra le Medaglie, Venice 1554

Artist or creator

Bonasone, Giulio (born c1510, died after 1576)

Date

1555

Location

London, Warburg Institute

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Bocchi, Achille. Symbolicarum quaestionum, de universo genere, quas serio ludebat, libri quinque. Bologna. 1574. Page: 314.
View this reference in the Warburg library catalogue, or as a Warburg or external digital facsimile.

Notes on photograph

Project

Bartsch

Rights and Permissions

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

Contact

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