Iacobi â Bruck Angermunt cogn. Emblemata Politica : Quibus ea, quæ ad principatum spectant, breviter demonstrantur, singuloru[m] verò explicatio fusius proponitur ; Opus novum

Bruck, Iacobus a · 1618 · Argentine : Ab Heyden · 56 pictures

Emblemata Politica is a 1618 Latin book of political emblems by Jacob von Bruck, printed at Strasbourg (Argentine) by Ab Heyden, meant for rulers and those advising them. Its pictures are small engraved roundels, each with a motto-like scene of symbolic objects such as a crown, arrows, a cube or a pillar set against landscape and architecture. A designer might take from them the compact circular framing and the habit of pairing one emblematic object with a distant narrative scene.

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