Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Two Fountains: Emblem XL
Two attendants bend over separate square basins beneath statues of a man and woman. Their vessels and the paired architecture repeat the division across the scene. Emblem XL presents the joining of two waters into one as its central alchemical comparison.
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Matthaeus Merian. "The Two Fountains: Emblem XL" [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 177. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/maier-two-fountains
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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 Two Fountains: Emblem XL. Atalanta Fugiens. Scan leaf 177. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/maier-two-fountains