# Forza d'amore

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## Artwork

- Artist: [RIPA, Cesare](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ripa-cesare-r21853025454921>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Woodcut

## Commentary

The ancient Greek epigram, The Force of Love on Land and Sea \(Forza d&#39;amore\) was diffused throughout Europe in the seventeenth century by Cesare Ripa in his Iconologia, in a representation of a naked winged boy standing in a landscape, holding a fish in one hand and a garland of flowers in the other. The Iconologia was published in 1603 in Rome and republished in Milan, 1992.

## Related artworks

- [Representation of Virtues](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ripa-cesare-r21853025454921/representation-of-virtues-r9b9d22ebf41063>)
- [Title page of Iconologia of uytbeeldinghen des verstants](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ripa-cesare-r21853025454921/title-page-of-iconologia-of-uytbeeldinghen-des-verstants-r2d332a9e53d327>)
- [Title page of Iconologia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ripa-cesare-r21853025454921/title-page-of-iconologia-rce288805a2537e>)

## Attribution

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