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  Checklist of Rare Books in the Exhibition

  • Robert Burton (English, 1577–1640) The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes & seuerall cures of it. In three partitions, with their severall sections, members & sub-sections. Philosophically, medicinally, historicallly, opened & cut vp. Printed in English Oxford: Printed for Henry Cripps, 1638, fifth edition
  • Johann Caspar Lavater (German, 1741–1801) Physiognomy, or, The corresponding analogy between the conformation of the features, and the ruling passions of the mind. Printed in English London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, not before 1790
  • Johann Caspar Lavater (German, 1741–1801) The Pocket Lavater, or, The Science of Physiognomy: To which is added, An inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomy, from the Italian of Porta. Printed in English Hartford: Andrus & Judd, 1832
  • Charles Le Brun (French, 1619–1690) Expressions des Passions de L’Ame. Printed in French Paris, 1727
  • Cesare Ripa (Italian, 1560–1645) Iconologia di Cesare Ripa Perugino, caure. De’Sti. Mauritio e Lazzaro: Nella quale si descriuono diuerse imagini di virtù, vitij, affetti, passioni humane, arti, discipline, humori, elementi, corpi celesti, prouincie d’Italia, fiumi, tutte le parti del mundo, ed altere infinite materie: ... Printed in Italian Siena: Appresso gli geredi di Matteo Florimi, 1613 Purchased with Seymour Adelman fund
  • Cesare Ripa (Italian, 1560–1645) Iconologia di Cesare Ripa: Divisa in tre libri, ne I quali si quali si esprimono varie imagini di virtù, vitij, affetti, passioni humane, arti, discipline, humori, elementi, corpi celesti, prouincie d’Italia, fiumi, & altire materie infinite vtili ad ogni stato di persone. Printed in Italian Venice: C. Tomasini, 1645
  • Hartmann Schedel (German, 1440– 1514) Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle). Printed in Latin Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493. Deposit of Phyllis Goodhart Gordon (BMC 1935)
  • Otto van Veen (Dutch, 1556–1629) Amorum emblemata, figuris aeneis in cisa. Antuerpiae: Venalia apud auctorem, 1607
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  The Four Temperaments

  Heemskerck’s series The Four Temperaments helped establish a standard visual language for the temperaments, an iconography shared in part with their representation in the emblem books displayed nearby. Heemskerck gathered iconographic elements from a range of sources and consolidated these into a concise and comprehensive template.

  The upper register of each print labels the temperament and aligns it with a specific planet, Roman God, and zodiac sign. The lower register of the print combines seemingly unrelated scenes to depict moods and actions associated with the temperament. Notice the references to suicide and geometry in Melancholici, water and fishermen in Phlegmatici, lovers and festivity in Sanguinei, and combat and smoke in Cholerici.
  
  The gallery’s four colors reinforce the diagrammatic quality of Heemskerck’s own prints. Each color carries unique associations, tracing the emergence of the temperaments from the four bodily humors: red blood (sanguine), black bile (melancholy), yellow bile (choleric), and white phlegm (phlegmatic).