# Title page of Iconologia of uytbeeldinghen des verstants [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RIPA, Cesare]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Engraving ## Commentary Cesare Ripa was a 16th-century Italian aesthetician and author of the Iconologia, an influential emblem book. The picture shows the title page of a Dutch translation which was published in 1644 in Amsterdam. The notion that painting and literature are closely related - a concept already well established in the Renaissance - played an instrumental role in the arts. This idea is neatly demonstrated in the present title page, where Painting and Poetry in person flank a cartouche containing and extensive title, which is placed beneath the higher spheres where the art-loving gods Minerva, Apollo, and Mercury are seated. ## Related artworks - [Forza d'amore]() - [Representation of Virtues]() - [Title page of Iconologia]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()