Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Amor / Single figure / With attributes / Objects / Bow and arrows
Amor / Various activities / Blindfolded / Single figure
Apollo / Myths / Apollo receiving the lyre from Mercury
Daphne / Apollo and Daphne / Daphne transforming into a laurel tree / Transformation including arms and legs / Miscellaneous
Venus / Single figure / With attributes / Mirror

LITERATURE

Ancient / Lucian / De Mercede conductis potentium familiaribus

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Title pages / Title surrounded by appropriate emblems or allegories
Allegories and personifications A-Z / Adulation (Adulatio)
Allegories and personifications A-Z / Deceit (Fallacia)
Allegories and personifications A-Z / Despair (Desperatio)
Allegories and personifications A-Z / Fortune (Fortuna) / With attributes / Sphere
Allegories and personifications A-Z / Insolence (Contumacia)
Allegories and personifications A-Z / Riches (Opulentia)
Allegories and personifications A-Z / Servitude (Servitus)
Allegories and personifications A-Z / Toil (Labor, Stento)
Virtues and Vices / Virtues / Theological / Individual / Hope (Spes)
Ages of Man / Old age

Further details

used as a title-frame by Froben

Artist or creator

Holbein, Ambrosius (c1494-c1520)

Date

1519

Location

.., Blank

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Jean Michel Massing, 'The illustrations of Lucian's Imago Vitae Aulicae', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute 50 (1987), pp. 214-219

Find out more

Web resources

British Museum (used for a different book)

Rights and Permissions

This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License

Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

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