7.1 âTousjours malheur est prest,â in Andrea Alciat, Emblèmes dâAlciat (Lyon: Rouille, 1549), 158, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France 151
7.2 After Herman Jansz. Muller, Poster for the Lottery of 1592 for the Amsterdam Dolhuis (detail), 1591, hand-colored woodcut, 74 Ã 58,5 cm., Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet 153
7.3 Erhard Altdorfer, Poster for Eler Langeâs Lottery in Rostock (detail), 1518, woodcut, 54,9 à 36,8 cm., Rostock, Universitätsbibliothek 154
7.4 Jan David, Veridicus Christianus (Antwerp: Jean Moretus, 1601), 375, Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute 156
7.5 George Wither, A collection of Emblemes, ancient and moderne: quickened with metrical illustrations, both moral and divine, and disposed into lotteries (London: Henry Taunton, 1635), 302, University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 157
7.6 Albrecht Dürer, Nemesis, 1502, engraving, 33,3 à 23 cm., London, British Museum 158
7.7 Heinrich Aldegrever, Fortune, 1555, engraving, 11,3 Ã 8 cm., London, British Museum 159
7.8 âA qui Fortune en donnera,â woodcut, in Gilles Corrozet, Hecatongraphie (Paris: Denis Janot, 1543), Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France 161
7.9 âFortuna non mutat genus,â in Otto van Veen, Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata (Antwerp: Verdussen, 1607), 155, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France 167
7.10 Jan Harmensz. Muller, after Cornelis van Haarlem, Allegory of Fortune, 1590, engraving, 48,8 Ã 90,2 cm., London, British Museum 168
7.11 Jean-Jacques François Le Barbier, Audaces fortuna juvat (â¦) dédié aux Actionnaires, 1785, etching, 35 à 24,5 cm., Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France 169
7.12 Fortuné Louis Méaulle, Poster for the Lottery of the Union centrale des arts décoratifs, 1890, lithography, 102 à 72 cm., Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France 170
7.13 Theodor Galle, âMundi lactantia, minus est nihilo,â in Jan David, Veridicus Christianus (Antwerp: Jean Moretus, 1601), 270â71, Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute 172
7.14 Boëtius Adamsz Bolswert, Ergo quid est mundus, etching, 20,2 à 29,5 cm., Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet 174
7.15 Jan Van Meurs, âEmblema XXXII: Nihil cepimus,â in Henricus Engelgrave, Lux Evangelica (Amsterdam: Jacob Meurs, 1655), 408, Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique 175
7.16 âMortis certitudo,â in Otto van Veen, Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata (Antwerp: Verdussen, 1607), 202, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France 176
7.17 Claes Jansz Visscher, âAlst al gheloopen is,â in Roemer Visscher, Sinnepopen (Amsterdam:Willem Iansz, 1614), 122, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Library 178
8.1 Aby Warburg, Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, table 48 184
8.2 Marco Bigio, Le tre Parche, ca. 1530â1540 188
8.3 Francesco Salviati, Le tre Parche, 1550 189
8.4 Giorgio Ghisi after Giulio Romano, Le tre Parche, 1558 190
8.5 Vincenzo Cartari, Le tre Parche, 1608 191
8.6 Vincenzo Cartari, Le tre Parche e Necessità , 1608 193
8.7 Vincenzo Cartari, Le tre Parche, 1608 194
8.8 Peter Apianus, The Three Parcae, 1534 195
8.9 Giovanni Pierio Valeriano, Spindle of Death, 1556 196
8.10 Lodovico Dolce, Imprese, 1566 198
8.11 Gabriel Rollenhagen, Nucleus emblematum, 1613 199
8.12 Girolamo Ruscelli, Imprese illustri, 1566 200
8.13 Anton Joseph Kirchvweger, Aurea Catena, 1723 201
8.14 Seneca, Athamante, 1579 202
8.15 Sforza Compagnoni, Impresa Accademia Catenati, ca. 1600 203
8.16 Girolamo Ruscelli, Imprese illustri, 1566 206
8.17 Giovanni Ferro, Aurea Catena, 1627 207
8.18 Diego Valadés, Rhetorica Christiana, 1579 209
8.19 Johann Ebermeier, Neu Poetisch Hoffnungs-Gärtlein, 1653 210
8.20 Johann Lancelot, Cents emblems Chretiennes, 1602 212
8.21 Gabriel Rollenhagen, Nucleus emblematum, 1613 213
9.1 Georges de La Tour, The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds, ca. 1630â1634, Paris, Musée du Louvre 218
9.2 Georges de La Tour, The Fortune Teller, ca. 1630â1634, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1960 221
9.3 Georges de La Tour, The Dice Players, ca. 1650, Stockton-on-Tees, Preston Hall Museum 223
9.4 Georges de La Tour, The Denial of Saint Peter, 1650, Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts 225
10.1 Unknown artist (previously attributed to Simon Ushakov), Ptolemy Philadelphus Cognizes the Vanity of Human Life, Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery 235
10.2 Unknown artist (previously attributed to Simon Ushakov), A Mortal Man, Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery 236
10.3 A Mortal Man, Moscow, State Historical Museum, ÐÐРСобÑ. ÐаÑÑова â 1531, f. 93v 241
10.4 âPtolemy, the King of Astrologers, and Regiomontanus, the Prince of Astrologers,â from Regiomontanus, Epitoma in Almagestum Ptolemaei (Venice: Hamman, 1496), f. a4r 245
10.5 âPtolemy and the Muse Astronomia,â from Gregor Reisch, Margarita Philosophica (Freiburg: Schott, 1503), f. 127r 246
10.6 âPtolemy the King,â from Ptolemy, Geography, Biblioteca Marciana, MS Gr. Z 388, f. VI 252
10.7 âPythagoras and Archimedes,â from Leontij Magnitskij, Arithmetic (Moscow: Sinodalânaya tipografiya, 1703), title page 254