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This image bank contains approximately 1400 digitized images about the history of the printed book in the Netherlands, largely originating from the collections of the KB. The images can be downloaded and used with the stated credit line.

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Title
 Adriaen van de Venne, illustration in Jacob Cats, "Silenus Alcibiadis sive Proteus", Middelburg, 1618

Creator
 Cats, Jacob (auteur/author), Venne, Adriaen van de (illustrator), Hellen, Hans van der (drukker/printer)

Year
 1618

Type
 illustratie, illustration

Related term
 embleembundels, illustraties, gravure, vertalingen

Period
 16e eeuw

Classification
 E: Boekillustratie

Content
 With this important emblem book, illustrated with 51 engravings by his regular collaborator Adriaen van de Venne, Jacob Cats gave a new direction to the genre: the emblematic representation is explained three times by means of a poem, a prose text and a quotation in Dutch, Latin and French, in terms of earthly love, social and religious aspects. Later, the book was to become known by the title "Sinne- en minnebeelden" (Emblems and images of love).

Original
 Cats, Jacob. - Silenus Alcibiadis sive Proteus, vitae humanae ideam, emblemate trifariàm variato, oculis subijciens. - Middelburg: Hans van der Hellen, 1618, p. 52-53.

available in
 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 144 D 2

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 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek

@reproduction
 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek