emblem book

His research is primarily concerned with the early modern French emblem books.

It was also a familiar motif in emblem books and tombs.

The draw on the tradition of emblem books to use symbols to teach both religious and secular knowledge.

He is most famous for his emblem books.

With time, however, the reading public came to expect emblem books to contain picture-text combinations.

Other sources for embroidery designs were the popular herbals and emblem books.

Often the subject of a genre painting was based on a popular emblem from an Emblem book.

Later emblem books contained large numbers of emblems, partly to allow people to choose one they thought suited them.

Massive catalog reproducing emblems with texts from all known 16th and 17th century emblem books.

Sections of each chapter detailed the animal and its attributes, in the tradition of the emblem book.

The work was the first of its kind to give to Englishmen an adequate example of the emblem books from the great continental presses.

Its meaning was further defined by the emblem books of the Renaissance, particularly those that focused on fables as providing lessons for moral conduct.

Emblem books were very popular.

The emblem books popular from late medieval times through the 17th century often represent the dragon as an emblem of greed.

Georgette de Montenay, courtier and author of an emblem book (born 1540)

Marshall created the image on the frontispiece, which employs symbolism derived from the Emblem Book tradition.

In 1640 he published the anti-Machiavellian emblem book Empresas Políticas.

It was given greater currency in Europe during the Renaissance by being included in Emblem books and then entered popular culture.

It is frequently shown in emblem books, such as those of Guillaume de La Perrière from 1539.

It is noteworthy that there are a higher proportion of fables in the collection than are usual in other emblem books.

Sambucus' emblem book was edited five times and it was translated into French and Dutch.

Some early emblem books were unillustrated, particularly those issued by the French printer Denis de Harsy.

He is known for his 1624 emblem book Viridarium Chymicum, a significant anthology [2] with sources in previous collections.

Emblem Project Utrecht - "27 Dutch love emblem books, religious as well as profane"