Portrait of Cesare Ripa in Della novissima iconologia di Cesare Ripa perugino (1624)
Born
1555
Perugia
Died
22 January 1622(1622-01-22) (aged 66–67)
Rome
Nationality
Italian
Occupation(s)
Iconographer and scholar
Known for
Iconologia overo Descrittione dell’imagini universali cavate dall’antichità et da altri luoghi (1593)
Academic background
Influences
Prudentius, Martianus Capella, Domenico Nani Mirabelli, Francesco Colonna, Andrea Alciato, Paolo Giovio, Achille Bocchi, Pierio Valeriano Bolzani, Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Natalis Comes, Vincenzo Cartari
Academic work
Influenced
Pietro da Cortona, Gerard de Lairesse, Willem van Mieris, Vermeer, Vondel, Artus Quellinus, Antonio Cavallucci, Winckelmann, George Richardson, Piero Buscaroli
Cesare Ripa (c. 1555, Perugia – (1622-01-22)January 22, 1622 Rome) was an Italian iconographer who worked for Cardinal Anton Maria Salviati as a cook and butler.
CesareRipa (c. 1555, Perugia – (1622-01-22)January 22, 1622 Rome) was an Italian iconographer who worked for Cardinal Anton Maria Salviati as a cook...
initially unimaginably exotic and distant places— "the Orient". In 1593, CesareRipa published one of the most successful emblem books for the use of artists...
to disclose the scene. The Art of Painting also uses symbolism from CesareRipa of Clio, muse of history. Vermeer's Love Letter uses a similar gilt panel...
also known as Alberto da RipaCesareRipa (c. 1560–c. 1622), Italian author Henrik Ripa (1968–2020), Swedish politician Kelly Ripa (born 1970), American...
earlier attempts to classify and organise subjects encyclopedically like CesareRipa and Anne Claude Philippe de Caylus's Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes...
definitively specified at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries by CesareRipa, wants to symbolically convey the royalty and nobility of Italian cities...
the description in CesareRipa's 16th century book on emblems and personifications entitled Iconologia. However, according to Ripa History should look...
Anthony Pasquin described Melpomene as "murder-loving". The iconographer CesareRipa described Melpomene in his Iconologia. An English edition describes her...
also shown with the heroic trumpet and the clepsydra (water clock). CesareRipa's Iconologia, an important source book for artists of the Baroque period...
music, poetry, and theatre. De Lairesse was influenced by the Perugian CesareRipa and French classicist painters such as Charles le Brun, Simon Vouet and...
metallurgy in mind, and to swell his head, an image from an emblem of CesareRipa. He spoke of an island in the South sea, Paena, perhaps Bermuda although...
the Hieroglyphica of Pierio Valeriano (1556), and the Iconologia of CesareRipa (1643). The third level, from which the painting has acquired its present...
craftsmen looking for motifs. The most famous of these was the Iconologia of CesareRipa, first published unillustrated in 1593, but from 1603 published in many...
inscriptions and heraldry. Rossi 2014, p. 38. Bazzano 2011, p. 101. cfr. CesareRipa, Iconologia, sec. XVI "I simboli della Repubblica – L'emblema" (in Italian)...
Renaissance and Neoclassical art, the dissemination of emblem books such as CesareRipa's Iconologia (1593 and many further editions) helped standardize the depiction...
much-reprinted and translated standard emblem books of Andrea Alciati and CesareRipa, which engendered a considerable Spanish emblem literature during the...
Cesare Gennari (12 December 1637 – 11 February 1688) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. His Saint Mary Magdalene is in the Pinacoteca Civica...
Geoffrey Whitney Choice of Emblemes (various) Plantin Leiden 1586 248 CesareRipa Iconologia Rome 1593 not properly speaking an emblem book but a collection...
(1770-1778). He is likely to be the "Abatte Cesare Orlandi" who edited and published an edition of CesareRipa's "Iconology" in 1764, which contains a portrait...
work of art, now became but one of many positive characterizations. CesareRipa, in his Iconologia (published 1593, but typical for the 17th century)...
definitively specified at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries by CesareRipa, wants to symbolically convey the royalty and nobility of Italian cities...