Iconologia Di Cesare Ripa Pervgino Cav.re De S.ti Mavritio, E Lazzaro: Nella Qvale Si Descrivono Diverse Imagini di Virtù, Vitij, Affetti, Passioni humane, Arti, Discipline, Humori, Elementi, Corpi Celesti, Prouincie d'Italia, Fiumi, Tutte le parti del Mondo, ed altre infinite materie ; Opera Vtile Ad Oratori, Predicatori, Poeti, Pittori, Scvltori, Disegnatori, e ad o
Iconologia by Cesare Ripa, published in 1613 in Italian, a illustrated emblem handbook of allegorical figures for painters, poets, orators and designers. Its pictures are small framed woodcut-style figures of personified virtues and vices set between architectural pilasters, each with a short Italian explanation below. A designer could take from them the attribute-based way of building a symbolic figure, with each object such as a jug, flower, bird or serpent signalling a single meaning.
