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Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550, Jollat, Le Fèvre, Jean, 1493-1563 · 1539 · On les vend a Paris : En la maison de Chrestien Wechel ... · 31 pictures

A 1539 Paris edition of Andrea Alciati's emblem book, translated into French verse by Jean Le Fèvre and printed by Chrestien Wechel for a learned reading public. Its small woodcuts each pair a scene with a moral motto, and the pictures show allegorical and everyday narrative scenes in sixteenth-century dress and landscape, with dense hatching and clear outlines that suggest how to build a compact vignette with a clear focal figure against a background of hills, towns and trees.

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