VEEN (VAENIUS), Otto Van [1558-1629].

Amoris Divini Emblemata, Studio Et Aere Othonis Vaeni Concinnata.

      4to. pp. 127, [1]. engraved title vignette & 60 full-page engravings. woodcut ornaments & initials.text in Latin, Spanish, Dutch, & French. contemporary calf, gilt back (joints partly cracked, head of spine worn, scattered light foxing). Antwerp: ‘Ex Officina Plantiniana’, Balthasar Moretus, 1660. Second Edition (first: 1615) of this popular Dutch emblem book on divine love. The work is dedicated to the Infanta Isabella of Spain, at whose suggestion the emblems were composed. Accompanying the engravings are Latin quotations from the Holy Fathers, short epigrams in Spanish by Alonso de Ledesma, and verses in French by Carolus Hattronius, and Dutch by Van Veen. Dutch artist Van Veen studied for seven years under Federigo Zuccari at Rome. Settling in Antwerp in 1593, he began painting for the churches and public buildings. For several years, from 1596 to 1600, he numbered Rubens among his pupils. His work attracted the admiration and patronage of the Archduke Albert, who succeeded the Prince of Parma in the government of the Low Countries. Van Veen produced three other emblem books, Q.Horatii Flacci Emblemata (1607), Amorum Emblemata (1608), and Emblemata Sive Symbola (1624). Brunet V 1025. Graesse VII 234. Landwehr, Dutch Emblem Books, 245b. Landwehr, Emblem Books in the Low Countries, 702. Praz 526.