Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Janus / Single figure / Heads and busts / Miscellaneous
Minerva / Allegories / Wisdom, Prudence or Learning
Saturn / With other figures / Minerva
Saturn / Myths / Saturn and his children / Devouring a child (not being castrated)
Saturn / Allegories / of Destruction

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Geography / Topography / Topographical personifications / Cities / Italy / Florence

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Coats-of-Arms / Italy / Families / Medici

Further details

The frame was already in use in 1558. Minerva with the inscription: Deo homines proximos facit; Saturn with the inscription: Profert in apricum et destruit omnia

Artist or creator

Vico, Enea (1523-1567)

Date

1560

Location

.., Blank

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Vico, Enea. Ex Libris XXIII Commentariorum in vetera imperatorum Romanorum Numismata Aeneae Vici Liber Primus. Venice. 1560. Unspecified: frontispiece.

Notes on photograph

Project

Bartsch

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 Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

Contact

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