Portrait collections in books ( the book of icones ) became one of the recognised genres of collecting and collation for Renaissance humanists, along with the emblem book and album amicorum.
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The " Mikrokosmos ", an emblem book of 1579 by the Dutch poet Laurentius Haechtanus may be the first depiction of the shivering Venus, as Ceres and Bacchus walk away.
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Similarly, the University's famed emblem book collection has begun to be digitized, with many emblems now available for perusal on an open-access website hosted by the University Library.
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His most ambitious work was the highly elaborate frontispiece to George Wither's 1635 " Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne ", an unusually complex example of the Emblem book.
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According to Eddy De Johgh, Vermeer appears to have taken it from a 1636 emblem book by the Jesuit Willem Hesius, " Emblemata sacra de fide, spe, charitate ".
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Alciato's work spawned thousands of imitations in all the European vernacular languages : secular, religious, or amorous in nature, emblem books were an integral part of European culture for two centuries.
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His first attempt at an instructive manual for artists was his Emblem book, " Inhoud van't Sieraad der Afbeelding ", which was meant as a guide of possible painting themes.
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This was an Emblem book in which the story's significance was widened to the uncertainty of life in general under the title " Peril and danger on all sides " ( see illustration ).
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A very similar illustration to those in the emblem books accompanied a story much like La Fontaine s in the " Phryx Aesopus " ( 1564 ) of the Neo-Latin poet Hieronymus Osius.
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Initially the depiction of this motif were closely tied to text and was found mostly in emblem books, with the first appearance in the " Picta poesis " of 1552, by Barth�l�my Aneau.
