Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Bellerophon / Myths / Bellerophon is thrown down from Pegasus when trying to ride to heaven

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Emblems / Cycles (Emblem Books) / Maccio, Emblemata cum priuilegijs, 1628

Further details

Emblem 39: 'Vires suprà quid aggredi dementia est'

Artist or creator

Gatti, Oliviero (born 1579)

Date

1628

Location

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Maccio, Paolo. Emblemata cum priuilegijs. Bologna. 1628. Page: 161.
View this reference in the Warburg library catalogue, or as a Warburg digital facsimile.

Notes on photograph

Project

Bartsch

Bibliographic Citation

Mario Praz, Studies in Seventeenth-Century Imagery, 2nd edn, Rome 1964, p. 409

Rights and Permissions

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Acknowledgements

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

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