The Initiation of Love

Public Domain

Artist / maker

Félicien Rops (printmaker)

Date

1887

Period

19th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
This etching served as the frontispiece for Joséphin Péladan's novel L'Initiation sentimentale (Paris, Edinger, 1887). The sentence 'Diaboli virtus in lumbis est', sometimes attributed to Augustine of Hippo (Saint Augustine), actually comes from a letter by Hieronymus of Stridon (Saint Hieronymus); Epistulae, 22,11 - Ad Eustochium - De virginitate servanda.

More about this work

Features
Artist / maker Félicien Rops VIAF RKD Wikidata
Type photoaquatints (prints) AAT
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 247 x 163 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2011-DS
Description
Subjects figures (representations) , symbolism (artistic concept)
Tags male sex; man Iconclass, female sex; woman Iconclass, adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass, the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass, head (human) Iconclass, devils in the form of (fabulous) animals Iconclass, trees Iconclass, (human) skeleton Iconclass, (human) skull Iconclass, inscription Iconclass, initiation usages for young men Iconclass, initiation usages for young women Iconclass, insects Iconclass, Youth, Adolescence, 'Iuventus'; 'Adolescenza', 'Gioventu' (Ripa) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2011-DS
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/6146/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2011-DS
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