Art, Symbol & Imagination
Ceres, Thetis and the Children: Emblem XXXV
A seated woman tends a child near smoke or flame while another raises a small body beside a rocky fire. Trees and distant architecture join the two scenes. Emblem XXXV names Ceres with Triptolemus and Thetis with Achilles as comparisons for accustoming the alchemical stone to fire.
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Matthaeus Merian. "Ceres, Thetis and the Children: Emblem XXXV" [editorial title]. In Atalanta Fugiens, Michael Maier. Inspected engraved title: Oppenheim, Hieronymus Galler for Johann Theodor de Bry, M DC XVIII (1618). Latin and German historical printing with musical fugues and engraved emblems, final errata. Printing date checked on an enlarged crop of the existing title derivative. No modern English translation or new commentary., 1618, Hieronymus Galler for Johann Theodor de Bry. Source scan leaf 157. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/maier-ceres-thetis
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Matthaeus Merian. Ceres, Thetis and the Children: Emblem XXXV. Atalanta Fugiens. Scan leaf 157. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/maier-ceres-thetis