Devises heroiques et emblemes
Devises heroiques et emblemes is a 1622 Paris emblem book by Claude Paradin, with later edits by François d'Amboise and designs tied to Bernard Salomon, made for learned readers who enjoyed symbolic mottoes and picture riddles. Its pictures are small black-and-white engravings of single objects set against blank ground, such as a bundled arrow cluster, a rope knot holding a basket, and a spray of fireworks rising from a rocky mound, offering designers compact emblematic motifs built from line and cross-hatching.
