DOI Artikel:
Tomicka, Joanna A.: The Black Art: Typography and its allegories in emblems during the 16th-18th centuries
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18947#0073
Soutłe/i t/u Te/rtf/e t/e ///,W(^r ,
N~ou<r (mns/nctfatts fe&Fitite a /i posferiłe ;
/er Sctc/n wr, /'j/Fto/oire
Motto' t/otee/łł- //r/jt/ło/ ia/tto .
13. S. Fessard,
Allegory of Typography,
print in: R S. Fournier,
Manuel typographique,
Paris 1/66, engrming,
courtesy of the
National Library
in Warsaw
Each of the six figures, portrayed in a sumptuous, almost palatial interior,
is performing one of the actions representing the specific stage involved in
book printing. Behind the minor geniuses engrossed in their work stands
a personification of the typographical art, next to the printing press, watching
over the entire intricate process of printing. The head in this instance is not
garlanded with laurel leaves but with flames of fire, symbolising invention and
yigilance aspiring to a printed impeccability.
The emblematic print placed in the second volume of Manuel Typograpbiąue...
(ill. 13) also depicts almost every activity connected with book printing,
beginning with the setting of the letters. Here puttos were shown performing
Varsovie 1982, pp. 83-103; Rococo Art and Design in Hogarth’s England, exh. cat., Victoria and
Albert Museum, London 1984, pp. 29-31, 50-53.
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N~ou<r (mns/nctfatts fe&Fitite a /i posferiłe ;
/er Sctc/n wr, /'j/Fto/oire
Motto' t/otee/łł- //r/jt/ło/ ia/tto .
13. S. Fessard,
Allegory of Typography,
print in: R S. Fournier,
Manuel typographique,
Paris 1/66, engrming,
courtesy of the
National Library
in Warsaw
Each of the six figures, portrayed in a sumptuous, almost palatial interior,
is performing one of the actions representing the specific stage involved in
book printing. Behind the minor geniuses engrossed in their work stands
a personification of the typographical art, next to the printing press, watching
over the entire intricate process of printing. The head in this instance is not
garlanded with laurel leaves but with flames of fire, symbolising invention and
yigilance aspiring to a printed impeccability.
The emblematic print placed in the second volume of Manuel Typograpbiąue...
(ill. 13) also depicts almost every activity connected with book printing,
beginning with the setting of the letters. Here puttos were shown performing
Varsovie 1982, pp. 83-103; Rococo Art and Design in Hogarth’s England, exh. cat., Victoria and
Albert Museum, London 1984, pp. 29-31, 50-53.
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