Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Locked Rose Garden: Emblem XXVII
A traveller on crutches stops before the high gate of a formal garden. Ordered beds and a distant town remain visible beyond the wall. Emblem XXVII compares entering the philosophers’ rose garden without a key to trying to walk without feet.
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Matthaeus Merian. "The Locked Rose Garden: Emblem XXVII" [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 125. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/maier-rose-garden
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Descriptive title supplied for browsing. The complete original page retains its Latin motto, epigram, margins and paper tone. The scene belongs to Maier’s historical alchemical allegory.
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Matthaeus Merian. The Locked Rose Garden: Emblem XXVII. Atalanta Fugiens. Scan leaf 125. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/maier-rose-garden