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The Iconologia: Helping Art Students Understand Allegory
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These images are the Representatives of our Notions; they properly belong to Painters, who by Colours and Shadowing, have invented the admirable Secret to give Body to our Thoughts, thereby to render them visible.
-Peirce Tempest, issue of the first English edition of Cesare Ripa's Iconologia or Moral Emblems, in his foreword to the reader (1709, p. i).
This article focuses on helping students understand allegory through the investigation of images and text revealed in Johann Georg Hertel's translation of Cesare Ripa's manuscript, Iconologia (1971). It first explores Ripa's background and the importance of his volume that describes allegorical themes. Then, the …
