Jean Baudoin (1590–1650), born in the

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region, was a French

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, notable as the first French translator of

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's ''La Gerusalemme liberata'' and as an early member of the ''

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'', to which he was elected before 13 March 1634. He died of hunger and cold in 1650, and was succeeded at the Académie by

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. Baudoin translated from English as well; his translation of

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's ''

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'' first appeared in 1648 and went through four subsequent printings. His translation was also the basis for the German translation. Baudoin translated

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's ''Iconologia'' of 1593 into French and published it in Paris in 1636 under the title ''Iconologie''.Olga Vassilieva-Codognet, ''À la recherche des généalogies effigionaires de princes: Series of Retrospective Dynastic Portraits and the Social Implications of True Likeness (Antwerp, ca. 1600)'', p. 102-105 The ''Iconologia'' of Ripa was a highly influential

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based on Egyptian, Greek and Roman emblematical representations, many of them

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s.Maser, E.A. (1971) ''Cesare Ripa. Baroque and Rococo. Pictural Imagery''. The 1758–1760 Hertel edition of Ripa's ''Iconologia'' with 200 engraved illustrations, p. viii–ix
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translated the woodcuts from Ripa's original book into linear figures inside circular frames, thus turning Ripa's allegories into the reverse side of Roman coins.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baudoin, Jean 1590 births 1650 deaths People from Ardèche Members of the Académie Française