Michel Maier - Atalanta Fugiens, 1618

frontispice de l’Atalanta fugiens

Cinquante gravures de Theodor De Bry (1528-1598) illustrant cet ouvrage extraordinaire qu’est l’Atalanta fugiens ( accéder au texte des cinquante emblèmes)

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Michael Maier’s emblem book Atalanta Fugiens (The Fugitive Atalanta) is best known for its engravings, reproduced time and again to delight amateurs of alchemy and the occult arts, and connoisseurs of proto-surrealism. Less well known are the fifty fugues that accompany the emblems, their cryptic titles and Latin poems, and the fifty essays or ‘discourses’ on alchemical themes. This multi-media work appeared in 1617 from the Oppenheim publisher, Johann Theodor de Bry, with the fifty emblems, title-page, and portrait of Maier engraved by de Bry’s son-in-law Matthaeus Merian (1593-1650). Maier himself had recently returned from a five-year sojourn in England, and it was perhaps there that he had prepared this and the nine other books published in 1616-1618…(http://www.claudiorecords.com/detail/atalanta_fugiens.html)

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