Iconologia, of uytbeeldingen des verstands
A 1644 Dutch edition of Cesare Ripa's allegorical handbook, Iconologia, printed in Amsterdam by Dirck Pietersz Pers with text by Giovanni Zaratino Castellini, meant for artists and readers needing personifications of abstract virtues and vices. The small woodcut figures show female allegories with attributes such as helmets, spears, dogs, flames, masks and swords, each standing in a ruled frame; a designer can borrow their stock poses and emblematic props for symbolic imagery.
