(Band 2)
Volume 2 of Cesare Ripa's allegorical emblem handbook, translated into German by Lorenz Strauß and printed in 1670, held by Heidelberg University Library and written for artists and iconographers seeking personifications of abstract virtues. The woodcuts show single standing or kneeling allegorical women, each with attributes such as a sword, a branch, a banner, a bird, a tray of fruit or a sunburst, set against a plain ground with a simple frame, offering designers a compact vocabulary of symbols for figures of virtue and abundance.
