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Iconologie, ov, explication novvelle : de plvsievrs images, emblemes, et avtres figvres hyerogliphiques des vertus, des vices, des arts, des sciences, des causes naturelles, des humeurs differentes, & des passions humaines : oevvre necessaire a tovte sorte d'esprits, et particvlierement a cevx qvi aspirent ...

Ripa, Cesare, fl. 1600, Baudoin, Jean, 1590?-1650, De Bie, Jacques, 1581-ca. 1650 · 1636 · A Paris : Chez l'Avthevr, au Fauxbourg S. Germain, rüe de la Boucherie, aux trois Pigeons · 199 pictures

Jean Baudoin's French edition of Cesare Ripa's Iconologia, engraved by Jacques de Bie and published in Paris in 1636 as a reference of allegorical figures for artists, poets, and designers of emblems. Each numbered roundel holds a single standing woman in classical drapery with her attributes: spear, idol, open book, scroll, serpent, crown, set against a plain ground with legible engraved hatching.

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