Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae statua ... exposita
A 1657 Roman emblem book by Claude-François Menestrier, published by Mascardi, that interprets the many-breasted cult statue of Diana of Ephesus through symbolic images. The engravings show the frontal figure of the goddess in a veil and crown, her body divided into panels of carved scenes, animals and ornament, numbered in sequence. A designer might draw on the sequence of stacked, framed panels and the way a single figure is built from separate symbolic zones.
