Figura (Sep 2019)

Cavalier d’Arpino and Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia: ut pictura poesia

  • Liana De Girolami Cheney

DOI
https://doi.org/10.20396/figura.v2i0.10136
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2

Abstract

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Cesare (Giovanni Campani) Ripa’s Iconologia (Overo, Descrittione Di Diverse Imagini caute dell’antichita, & di propia invenzione, Figs. 1 and 2) is a comprehensive dictionary of personifications, imagini or figurazioni (images or figurations). Ripa explains his purpose in composing the images: