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Identifier: bookoffortunetwo00cous (find matches)
Title: The book of fortune : two hundred unpublished drawings
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Cousin, Jehan, ca. 1522-ca. 1593 Anlezy, Imbert d', 16th century Lalanne, Ludovic, 1815-1898
Subjects: Fortuna (Roman deity) Emblems
Publisher: Paris London : Librairie de l'art
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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erformed his task with muchcare and skill. The photogravures have been made from his tracings. As for the text to which Imbert dAnlezy attached so much impor-tance, we have without any scruple set aside his Latin, that is to say,his quatrains, distiches, quotations and proverbs. So far his text wasdevoid of interest ; but it was impossible to avoid reproducing theexplanations in French which he has given of his Emblems andSymbols^ because, although they are occasionally very much involved,they are indispensable to the due understanding of the drawings, andserve to bring out into greater prominence all the mental and imagi-native resources displayed by the artist in the illustration of the Bookof Fortune. In order, however, to allow of their being read withgreater facility, we have in transcribing them used the modern ortho-graphy. I. See ihe manuscript notes which accompany the volume, and the Notice des dessins,cartons, etc., of the Museum of the Louvre, by iM. Reiset, p. 274 ct scq.
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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES - Fortuna audax. - Aiisiis herculens. Adventurous and daring Fortune is usually depicted in this, the commonest andmost trivial manner; and for this reason we have elected to commence with her.Her device is the boldness and adventurous enterprise of Hercules, signified bythe skin of the lion and the club of the aforesaid Hercules. Around the com-partment are all the labours of the aforesaid Hercules and his adventurousfortunes. 3.4- - Fortuna virilis. - Venus Iictrix. Next to this first nude (Fortune) we have placed the second armed, which isvirile Fortune, formerly worshipped by the Pagan Romans, for whose device wehave adopted the victorious apple of Venus, which apple, as narrated by CorneliusTacitus, is placed upon the summit of pyramids and other lofty sites in sign of thesignal victory of the aforesaid Venus. In the margin are Emperors, Kings, Popes,gendarmes, and all others in bondage and subjection to her, with the Judgmentof Paris, Mars, and Adonis ;

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