Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Woman and the Dragon in the Tomb: Emblem L
A great dragon curls around a reclining woman within a long open grave. Ruins and a distant town enclose the low landscape. Emblem L closes the series with the woman and dragon’s mutual destruction, an allegory of the final joined transformation.
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Matthaeus Merian. "The Woman and the Dragon in the Tomb: Emblem L" [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 217. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/maier-woman-dragon-tomb
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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 Woman and the Dragon in the Tomb: Emblem L. Atalanta Fugiens. Scan leaf 217. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/maier-woman-dragon-tomb