The Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century

by Stanislas Klossowski de Rola

Hardcover, 1996

Status

Available

Call number

709

Publication

Thames & Hudson (1996), Edition: First Edition, 320 pages

Description

Alchemy, the quest for the Philosopher's Stone, has been an alternative strand in the development European culture since antiquity. By the 17th century, the complex pictorial language of symbols which encoded its theories and secrets had reached a highpoint of elaboration and sophistication. With the spread of printing, the iconography of alchemy began to flower as never before.

User reviews

LibraryThing member JayLivernois
Wonderful images from the late Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

320 p.; 8.75 inches

ISBN

0500233551 / 9780500233559
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