SYMBOLORUM: THE SECRET WISDOM OF EMBLEMS

Discover the esoteric insights and enchanting imagery of the Baroque emblem book, a long-lost cousin of the tarot. The emblem book, which reached the peak of its popularity in the 16th and 17th centuries, presented mysterious allegorical imagesrather like those we now find on tarot cardsalongside Latin mottoes. A learned text explained the connection between image and motto, and the lessons each emblem held for the readers life.