Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Stone across the Landscape: Emblem XXXVI
Small figures travel and work across a broad landscape of hills, fields and river banks. A town rises in the distance while flowering plants and rocks fill the foreground. Emblem XXXVI distributes the stone through earth, mountain, air and water in its description of Mercury.
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Matthaeus Merian. "The Stone across the Landscape: Emblem XXXVI" [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 161. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/maier-stone-landscape
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
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 Stone across the Landscape: Emblem XXXVI. Atalanta Fugiens. Scan leaf 161. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/maier-stone-landscape