# Emblem from Sinnepoppen [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VISSCHER, Roemer]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Engraving ## Commentary Roemer Visscher was a poet and moralist of the early Dutch Renaissance. He was a central figure of the cultural scene in Amsterdam. He was a specialist in the epigram, but he also wrote emblemata \(book of emblems, a genre in which pictures are accompanied by one or two rhyming sentences\). An example of the emblemata is his Sinnepoppen \(Meaningful Little Figures\). The Sinnepoppen is a work infused with patriotic overtones. The picture shows one of the emblems contained therein, inscribed "Ad pompam tantum" \(only fitting for pomp\). It depicts a young buffoon wearing pantaloons of sufficiently exaggerated breadth to impair his gait. ## Related artworks - [Emblem from Sinnepoppen]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()