The Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings Of The Seventeenth Century
By (author): "Stanislas Klossowski de Rola"
Publish Date:
October 1988
ISBN0500279810
ISBN139780500279816
AsinThe Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings Of The Seventeenth Century
Original titleThe Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century
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.