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This weeks art isn't art as much as it is an interesting and important cultural relic, at least for people in my line of work. See, in the seventeenth century in Holland, there were books called emblem books. There would be a little motto, like a proverb, and a picture which represented it and a little explanation. Through this, a whole visual language of images with attached meanings developed. It was pretty common, too. There were more emblem books than Bibles in the Netherlands at one point!

Anyway, there's a sample page behind the cut...
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I'd like to post art more regularly, but picking a painting is always so hard. So...request time! anyone have any subjects or themes they'd like to see?