What is the meaning of the Latin phrase 'Omnia Vincit Amor'?
Amor Vincit Omnia (Caravaggio) Amor Vincit Omnia (Caravaggio) Amor Vincit Omnia ("Love Conquers All", known in English by a variety of names including Amor Victorious, Victorious Cupid, Love Triumphant, Love Victorious, or Earthly Love) is a painting by the Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio. "Amor Vincit Omnia" shows Amor, the Roman Cupid, wearing dark eagle wings, half-sitting on or perhaps climbing down from what appears to be a table. Scattered around are the emblems of all human endeavours – violin and lute, armour, coronet, square and compasses, pen and manuscript, bay leaves, and flower, tangled and trampled under Cupid’s foot. The painting illustrates the line
Labor omnia vincit forth with a scholar pointing to the heavens with the word SCIENCE surrounded by olive branches on the base, above this states the term LABOR • OMNIA • VINCIT *The film was ahead of its time being available in color hand painted frame by frame! Across the world, many educational institutions have adopted the phrase as a motto, including: South America The Bishops' High School Labor omnia vincit#/editor/3 Labor omnia vincit Labor omnia vincit is a Latin phrase meaning "Work conquers all". The phrase is adapted from Virgil's "Georgics", Book I, line 145–6: "...Labor omnia vicit / improbus" ("Steady work