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DOI Artikel:Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna: Navigatio Vitae: elements of Emblematic Symbolism in 17th century Dutch seascapes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18898#0042
9. Roemcr Yisscher, Intelligentibus (after Emblemata. Haudbuch..., op. cit.)
Sea and Fishermen (Budapest, Szepmiiveszeti Muzeum, fig. 10); Jan van de Capelle's Barges on the
Water (Koln, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum): Simon de Vlieger's The Beach (the Hague, Mauritsliuis)
and in many others. The signs played their role only when they served those who knew what
they meant: this reąaired certain knowledge from the sailors. To those who hnow (Intelligentibus)
Visscher dedicated his emblem (fig. 9):
To one versed in it, it is of great help,
To one who does not know what it means — it will be of no use36.
Hence then conclusion about the advantage of knowledge even inroutine daily actions.In Janvan
Goyen's painting Fishing Harbour (Poznań, National Museum, fig. onp. 48) we see a sign from
which a metal basket with burning tar inside is suspended, as it the same painter's drawing
in the Viennese Albertina or in At the Mouth of the River during a Fresh Breeze by Pieter van
der Croos in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, so that the sign could better perform
its function and act as a warning also at night. Jacob Cats uscdthe same sign, luminous at night,
36. R. Visscher, op. cii.; cf. Henkel, Schone, op. cit.3 col. 1481:
Die zich hier op verstaet, die ist een groote stut.
Die niet weet wat het is, en doet net oock geen nut.
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Sea and Fishermen (Budapest, Szepmiiveszeti Muzeum, fig. 10); Jan van de Capelle's Barges on the
Water (Koln, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum): Simon de Vlieger's The Beach (the Hague, Mauritsliuis)
and in many others. The signs played their role only when they served those who knew what
they meant: this reąaired certain knowledge from the sailors. To those who hnow (Intelligentibus)
Visscher dedicated his emblem (fig. 9):
To one versed in it, it is of great help,
To one who does not know what it means — it will be of no use36.
Hence then conclusion about the advantage of knowledge even inroutine daily actions.In Janvan
Goyen's painting Fishing Harbour (Poznań, National Museum, fig. onp. 48) we see a sign from
which a metal basket with burning tar inside is suspended, as it the same painter's drawing
in the Viennese Albertina or in At the Mouth of the River during a Fresh Breeze by Pieter van
der Croos in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, so that the sign could better perform
its function and act as a warning also at night. Jacob Cats uscdthe same sign, luminous at night,
36. R. Visscher, op. cii.; cf. Henkel, Schone, op. cit.3 col. 1481:
Die zich hier op verstaet, die ist een groote stut.
Die niet weet wat het is, en doet net oock geen nut.
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