#Emblemata

[clawmarks]

The bibliographical decameron - Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1817 - via Internet Archive

#ex libris #emblemata #cats #printers ornaments

[carnageandculture]

From A Complete Guide to Heraldry, 1909, compiled by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

#arthur charles fox-davies #heraldry #stag #emblemata

[riesenfeldcenter]

It’s turnip time!

An imaginary turnip with time, that is.

The intricate, fantastical visual aids in Johannes Buno’s Memoriale Institutionum Juris don’t make much sense to us but they sure are a lot of fun.

This copy comes to us from the library of German jurist Hermann Kantorowicz and is featured in our new exhibit, Tools of the Profession: Law Books and the History of Legal Education.

#turnip time #turnip tuesday #mnemonic devices #visual aids #johannes buno #book illustrations #emblemata #teaching tools #17th century #rare books #legal education #kantorowicz collection #umn law #riesenfeld center #latin books

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Ramsey Dukes, Austin Osman Spare - SSOTBME: An Essay on Magic - Nigel Grey-Turner - 1979

#witches #magic #occult #vintage #drawing #symbolism #emblemata #ramsey dukes #austin osman spare #ssotbme #essay #sex secrets of the black magicians #s.s.o.t.b.m.e. #nigel grey-turner #an essay on magic #essays on magic #1979 #effigies

[lascitasdelashoras]

Emblemata politica, 1632

#emblemata politica

[tiffanysabrinatattoo]

Omnia Andreae Alciati v.c. Emblemata (1577) Andrea Alciati et al.

#medieval #medieval illustration #medieval manuscripts #medieval art #medieval bat #bat #medieval aesthetic #medieval core #medieval engraving #engraving #etching #woodcut #omnia andreae alciati vc emlemata #omnia andreae alciati emblemata #middle ages #emblem #medieval emblem #medieval emblems #1500s

[comparativeoracle]

Sovereignty. Art by ​Nitasia Roland, from ​Tarot Emblemata.

The stars incline us, they do not bind us

(Also used in The Oracle of Secrets (The Alleyway Oracles).)

#Nitasia Roland #Tarot Emblemata #Sovereignty #Oracle Deck #The Oracle of Secrets #The Alleyway Oracles

[merelygifted]

BibliOdyssey: Emblemata Nova

First developed in the 16th century, emblems consist of three parts: a symbolic picture (pictura) with a motto or title (inscriptio) and an explanatory poem or epigram (subscriptio). Emblem books proved popular for more than two hundred years and thousands were published across Europe. The purpose of the emblem is to indirectly convey moral, political or religious values in forms that need to be decoded by the viewer. The pictura often juxtapose ordinary objects in an enigmatic way so as to offer a reader the intellectual challenge of attempting to divine all the allegorical meanings. In this way, emblem books typified the extraordinary Renaissance and Baroque aesthetic in which objects were thought to contain hidden meanings and concealed links between apparently dissimilar objects were believed to exist. [see The Odd Baroque]

"Emblem books exercised an enormous influence on literature and the visual arts, and therefore they have long attracted the attention of scholars interested in painting, decorative arts, literature, illustrated books, iconography, symbolism, theories of representation, social and cultural history." [source]

The esoteric pictura below (from 1617) hew much closer to the symbols of alchemy than they do to the typical visual language of moral or instructional emblems....

Images from Emblemata Nova by Andreas Friedrichen, 1617

@danskjavlarna

#Antiquarian Books #Emblemata Nova #Andreas Friedrichen #17th Century #Alchemy

[valentinfougeray]

Valentin Fougeray© https://www.instagram.com/valentinfougeray/ Self initiated project with @studio_emblemata Set designer : @studio_emblemata Photography :  @valentinfougeray Product : whisky @elementsofislay

#valentin fougeray #studio emblemata #collab #spirit

[disease]

EMBLEMATA XVI: “TOADSTOOL” M.C. ESCHER | circa 1931 [woodcut | 7 × 5"]

#m.c. escher #maurits cornelis escher #graphic design #mushrooms #illustration #fungi #monochrome #modern art #30s #german #art #u

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Moral emblems : with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations - Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne, John Leighton - 1860 - via Internet Archive

#emblemata #crocodiles #reptiles #pyramids #circles

[portalibis]

Emblemata nova, das ist, New Bilderbuch by Friedrich, Andreas c. 1617

#esoteric #consciousness #metaphysical #occult #rosicrucian #tarot #alchemy #magic #alchemist #art #magick #magical

[talonabraxas]

"Angel hierarchy", illustration from "Ferocious Holyman", written by Dmitry Deitch. Sveta Dorosheva https://www.svetadorosheva.com/project/allegorical-emblemata?fbclid=IwAR2hCMv2D6yirQ9nHOHSj26RzeDKajSGp1vO2-diriPCFtdRYLRqEGZVdf4

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

William K. Wells - Effigies - Dell - 1980 (art by Peter Caras)

#witches #born in darkness #occult #vintage #broad daylight #devil's own #pretty blue eyes #emblemata #william k wells #peter caras #effigies #william k. wells #dell books #1980

[enchantedbook]

Jacobus de Zetter, Emblemata Nova, 1617

#medievialart

[tiffanysabrinatattoo]

Omnia Andreae Alciati v.c. Emblemata (1577) Andrea Alciati et al.

#omnia andreae alciati emblemata #medieval #middle ages #medieval art #15th century #medieval engraving #engraving #engraving illustration #engraving art #woodcut #woodcut illustration #etching #hand #eye #1500s #hands #eyes