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52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 32: the emblem book of Sebastián de Covarrubias y Orozco (1610)
This week’s illustration post focuses on perhaps the most popular illustrated genre of the Renaissance: the emblem book. Emblem books were a genre developed in the early 16th century as digestible and curious works…