El poder universal de Cupido. Otto Vaenius y Jan van Kessel, emblemistas amorosos

Abstract

In the mid of the seventeenth century, Jan van Ressel I painted The Universal Power of Cupid, based on print of Otto Vaenius, dated half a century earlier. The painting shares the Neopiatoníc ínspiration of the print, however Van Kessel~ work is more sensual and opti mistic. It also incorporates clearly new elements: for example, a preoceupation with exofic landscape related to Flemish paíntíng. This article identifies and explains the embk,matic and literary sources of the artists.