Looking back to the past for inspiration in his 2012 exhibit " Emblemata " he used 15th Century emblem books and tarot cards as source material, and presented art historical lectures on the Magician and the Fool archetypes.
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Published at the time of a taste for Emblem books, the morals with which Faerno furnished the fables by way of conclusion were seen as contributing to that fashion and widening the subject matter to include the Aesopic fable too.
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Just as Abstemius had seen the moral merit of the Mediaeval symbol of the bear and the bees, so the compilers of Renaissance Emblem books were to follow him in using it to point to the consequences of giving way to anger.
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In 1635 he was employed by Henry Taunton, a London publisher, to write English verses illustrative of the allegorical plates of Crispin van Passe, originally designed for the emblem book " Gabriel Rollenhagens Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum " ( 1610 1613 ).
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Writing in the tradition of emblem books, Johannes Posthius brought out an illustrated " Aesopi Fabulae " ( 1566 ) in which a German verse treatment of the fables was prefaced by a short poem in Latin summing up the moral gist of each.
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In Renaissance and Neoclassical art, the dissemination of emblem books such as Cesare Ripa's " Iconologia " ( 1593 and many further editions ) helped standardize the depiction of the Muses in sculpture and painting, so they could be distinguished by certain props.
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He worked closely with the printer Jean de Tournes to design, engrave, and illustrate many types of books such as emblem books, documentaries and scientific works, and literary works, including the Bible and Ovid's Metamorphoses ( Lyon, Tournes, 1557 ).
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When it appeared in emblem books, however, it was as an illustration of how difficult things become easy with practice, but after its appearance in Samuel Croxall's " The Fables of Aesop " in 1722, the story was given a social interpretation.
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This is understandable, given that the first emblem book, the " Emblemata " of Andrea Alciato, was first issued in an unauthorized edition in which the woodcuts were chosen by the printer without any input from the author, who had circulated the texts in unillustrated manuscript form.
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Among other Renaissance variants may be included the ash and the reed in the emblem book of Hadrianus Junius ( 1567 ), which cites the same situation as an example of " the patience of the triumphant mind " ( " l'�quit?de l'esprit victorieuse " ).
