Emblematvm clarissimi viri D. Andreæ Alcati [i.e. Alciati] libri II : additæ sunt aliquot in altero libro figuræ

Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550 · 1567 · Antverpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini · 32 pictures

An emblem book by the Milanese jurist Andrea Alciato, printed in Antwerp in 1567 by Plantin's workshop for a learned readership of humanists and collectors. Each small woodcut sits in a plain rectangular frame above a Latin motto, pairing a mythic or moralising scene with a short verse; the pictures show figures in landscape settings with simple crosshatched shading and open ground.

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