A new light on the renaissance displayed in contemporary emblems (1909)
Bayley, Harold · London, J.M. Dent · leaf 28
1 6 NEW LIGHT ON THE RENAISSANCE circle with a strip of Unicorn’s flesh, and placing therein, say, a spider. He assures us the spider will be unable to escape from its pure environment. In Reusner’s Emblems (1580 the unicorn is made the ensign for the motto “ Faith undefiled victorious.” … Fig. 9. — 1699. Figs. 7, 8, 9 and 10 are stags, again, I think, emblems of the Pure Ones. The stag was the symbol of solitude and purity of life. It was also regarded as a type of religious aspiration, probably from the passage in the Psalms “ Like as the Hart panteth for the waterbrooks.” There…
Emblems · Cabala · Printers' marks · Renaissance
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