 Increasingly, van Veen was active in producing Emblem books, including "Quinti Horatii Flacci emblemata" (1607), "Amorum emblemata" (1608), and "Amoris divini emblemata" (1615).In all these works, van Veen's skills as an artist and learned humanist are on display.The "Amorum emblemata", for example, pictures 124 putti, or little cupids, enacting the mottoes and quotations from lyricists, philosophers, and ancient writers on the powers of Love.