# Lycurgus Demonstrares the Importance of Education [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VEEN, Otto van]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Engraving ## Commentary This print appeared in the emblem book 'Emblemata Horatiana', conceived as a mirror for princes. The best known edition was published in 1646, with the Lycurgus emblem as a frontispiece. The book was dedicated by van Veen to the queen mother of France expressing the hope that it would be useful for the education of the young Louis XIV. ## Related artworks - [A Lady Bitten by a Parrot]() - [Albert VII, Archduke of Austria]() - [Distribution of Herring and White Bread during the Siege of Leiden]() - [Emblem]() - [Portrait of Nicolaas Rockox]() - [The Artist Painting, Surrounded by his Family]() - [The Last Supper]() - [The Triumph of Wisdom over Fortune]() - [Xantippe Dousing Socrates]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()