Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Wind Bearing the Embryo: Emblem I
A vast wind-blown figure strides through a landscape with a small human form visible within his body. Clouds stream around the outstretched arms and head. Emblem I gives pictorial form to the alchemical motto about the wind carrying the developing substance in its belly.
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Matthaeus Merian. "The Wind Bearing the Embryo: Emblem I" [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 21. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/maier-wind-embryo
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Complete historical source page; editorial descriptive title. Original colours, marks, margins and captions retained.
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- The Three Voices in Atalanta FugiensAtalanta, Hippomenes and the delaying apple name the three musical roles printed beside Maier’s first fugue.
- The Wind Bearing an EmbryoMaier’s first emblem pictures an infant inside a personified wind, joining the Latin motto to an image of Boreas.
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Matthaeus Merian. The Wind Bearing the Embryo: Emblem I. Atalanta Fugiens. Scan leaf 21. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/maier-wind-embryo