03 — ARTWORK
Emblem from Sinnepoppen
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- Engraving
- TYPE
- Other
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COMMENTARY
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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 genreIn a broad sense, the term is used to mean a particular branch or category of art; landscape and portraiture, for example, are genres of painting, and the essay and the short story are genres of literature. 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.
OTHER WORKS BY ROEMER VISSCHER
The archive catalogues no further works by this artist.
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title = {Emblem from Sinnepoppen by VISSCHER, Roemer},
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date = {2026-09-13},
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