Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Historia Thebana / The story of Oedipus, Laius and Jocasta / Oedipus is questioned by the Sphinx

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

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

Further details

Emblem 34: 'Grave atque durum, ubi non expedit, sapientia est sapienti'. In the copy in the Metropolitan Museum, this image is printed on p. 139, thus with the wrong lemma

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: 141.
View this reference in the Warburg library catalogue, or as a Warburg digital facsimile.

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’

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