Le pegme

Coustau, Pierre, Lanteaume, de Romieu, 16th cent, Eskrich, Pierre, approximately 1530-approximately 1590 · 1560 · A Lyon : Par Barthelemy Molin · 22 pictures

Le pegme is a 1560 emblem book printed in Lyon by Barthelemy Molin, compiled by Pierre Coustau with contributions from Lanteaume de Romieu and Pierre Eskrich. The pictures are small woodcut friezes and borders, cropped from page edges, with scrolled cartouches, grotesque masks, and beast-headed ornament. A designer could take from them a dense, symmetrical Renaissance strapwork vocabulary for framing panels, headers, or borders.

Emblems

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