Deuises heroiques et emblemes
Deuises heroiques et emblemes is a 1621 emblem book published in Paris by Rolet Boutonné, with text by Claude Paradin and woodcut illustrations attributed to Bernard Salomon, made for learned readers who enjoyed moralised symbolic images. Its pictures are small, crisp woodcut-style emblems of single objects such as a flaming plant, a laurel-wrapped spear rising from a stone vessel, a rope-bound staff with smoke, and a looped rope with a basket, each with clear outlines and hatched shading that a designer could adapt into simple symbolic icons.
