Descriptio historica utruisque fortunae Maximiliani Emmanuelis ... : S.R.I. Archi-Dapiferi et Electoris ... : secundum heroica majorum suorum exempla Herculeis laboribus repraesentata, tabula serenissimi stemmatis leonini, aeneisque ducum bavaricorum figuris et emblematibus adornata ...

1715 · Pedeponti [Regensburg, Germany] : Apud Joannem Gastl, bibliopolam · 28 pictures

A 1715 emblem book published in Pedeponti (Regensburg, Germany) by bookseller Johann Gastl, recounting the life of Elector Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria through heroic exemplars and Herculean labours for a princely and courtly readership. The pictures are engraved cartouches, scrolls and framed emblems with acanthus foliage, cherubs, tassels and Latin mottoes, offering a designer a dense vocabulary of Baroque ornamental framing and emblematic device.

Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, 1662-1726 · Emblems -- Early works to 1800 · Bavaria (Germany) -- Kings and rulers -- Early works to 1800

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