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#0076
Gravelot’s print contains a summary of symbolic contents relating to
typography which were known in earlier times. Elaborating compositions
with symbols of wisdom and goodness as attributes of typography leads to
an accentuation of the morał aspect. Ali such elements combine to form
a picture of typography’s greatness as an art, emphasising its high-mindedness:
“TYPOGRAPHIA ARS ARTIUM OMNIUM CONSERVATRIX”.27
Translated by Peter Martyn
27 Cf. S. H. Steinberg, Die Schwarze Kunst. 500Jahre Buchdruck, Miinchen 1958, (English edition
with the preface by B. Warde, London 1959).
typography which were known in earlier times. Elaborating compositions
with symbols of wisdom and goodness as attributes of typography leads to
an accentuation of the morał aspect. Ali such elements combine to form
a picture of typography’s greatness as an art, emphasising its high-mindedness:
“TYPOGRAPHIA ARS ARTIUM OMNIUM CONSERVATRIX”.27
Translated by Peter Martyn
27 Cf. S. H. Steinberg, Die Schwarze Kunst. 500Jahre Buchdruck, Miinchen 1958, (English edition
with the preface by B. Warde, London 1959).