The Pearl of the Orient: Xaverian emblems in a Jesuit Book of 1663 from Olomouc

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Dolejší, Kateřina
The Pearl of the Orient: Xaverian emblems in a Jesuit Book of 1663 from Olomouc.
Emblematica: Essays in Word and Image. -, č. 2 (2018), s. 247-296. ISSN 2571-5070
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378033
Klíčová slova: emblem * Olomouc Jesuits * St. Francis Xavier
Obor OECD: Arts, Art history

The study focuses on book of emblems of 1663 associated with the conferral of academic degrees at the Jesuit University in Olomouc. A collection of ten emblems, ten poems and hundred epigrams was dedicated by ten poetics students in celebration of their older peer who had just earned their bachelor´s degrees. This set of ten emblematic engravings describing ten different motifs from St. Francis Xavier´s life is the second-earliest known graphic work signed by Martin Antonín Lublinský.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0293746