Atalanta Fugiens

The Scholarship of H.M.E. De Jong on Michael Maier's Alchemical Emblems

Alchemical Emblem Galleries

Browse the visual record of alchemy across 15 source works (324 plates total). Atalanta Fugiens is the centre of this site's scholarly apparatus — the other galleries surround it as comparison material. Click any tile to open that gallery; from inside each work-page you can drill into the visual element browser to see how its imagery overlaps with the rest of the corpus.

How to compare — every plate is auto-tagged with its visual elements (dragons, lions, athanors, calcinations …). On the Visual Browser you can pin a tag and watch every emblem book light up; on the Stages pages you can compare nigredo plates from Atalanta against nigredo plates from Splendor Solis and Aurora Consurgens. Most non-Atalanta images are served via the sister project AlchemyBeatEmUp (the original engravings, never the pixelated game-asset versions).