Cesare Ripa
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| Not much is known about his life. He was born in [[Perugia]] and died in [[Rome]]. After the death of the cardinal, Ripa worked for his relatives. He was knighted after publishing a highly successful book called ''[[Iconologia]]'', which he wrote in his free time. | Not much is known about his life. He was born in [[Perugia]] and died in [[Rome]]. After the death of the cardinal, Ripa worked for his relatives. He was knighted after publishing a highly successful book called ''[[Iconologia]]'', which he wrote in his free time. | ||
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| - | The ''[[Iconologia overo Descrittione Dell’imagini Universali cavate dall’Antichità et da altri luoghi]]'' was a highly influential [[emblem book]] based on Egyptian, Greek and Roman emblematical representations. The book was used by [[orator]]s, [[artist]]s and [[poet]]s to give substance to qualities such as [[virtue]]s, [[vice]]s, [[passion]]s, [[arts]] and [[sciences]]. The concepts were arranged in a [[Renaissance]] way, the alphabetical order. For each there was a verbal description of the [[allegory|allegorical]] figure proposed by Ripa to embody the concept, giving the type and color of its clothing and its varied symbolic [[paraphernalia]]s, along with the reasons why these were chosen, reasons often supported by references to literature (largely classical). | ||
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| - | The first edition of his ''Iconologia'' was published in in 1593 and dedicated to Anton Maria Salviati. A second edition was published in Rome in 1603 this time with 684 concepts and 151 [[woodcut]]s, dedicated to Lorenzo Salviati. The book was extremely influential in the 17th and 18th centuries and was quoted extensively in various art forms. In particular, it influenced the painter [[Pietro da Cortona]] and his followers. Also Dutch painters like [[Gerard de Lairesse]], [[Willem van Mieris]] based work on Ripa's emblems. [[Vermeer]] used the information on the muse [[Clio]] for his [[The Art of Painting]]. A large part of [[Vondel]]'s work cannot be understood without this allogorical source, and ornamentation of the Amsterdam [[Royal Palace (Amsterdam)|townhall]] by [[Artus Quellinus]], a sculptor, is totally dependent on Ripa. | ||
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| - | The baroque painter [[Antonio Cavallucci]] drew from the book the inspiration for his painting ''Origin of Music''. In 1779 the British architect [[Georg Richardson]], published in London his ''Iconology; or a Collection of Emblematical Figures; containing four hundred and twenty-four remarkable subjects, moral and instructive; in which are displayed the beauty of Virtue and deformity of Vice.'' The drawings were by [[William Hamilton (painter)|William Hamilton ]]. In 1819 [[Filippo Pitrucci]], a London based artist, published his version of ''Iconologia''. | ||
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Cesare Ripa (c. 1560 - c. 1622) was an Italian aesthetician who worked for Cardinal Anton Maria Salviati as a cook and butler.
Not much is known about his life. He was born in Perugia and died in Rome. After the death of the cardinal, Ripa worked for his relatives. He was knighted after publishing a highly successful book called Iconologia, which he wrote in his free time.
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