Atalanta fugiens

Atalanta fugiens by Michael Maier was first published in 1617 at Frankfurt at the press of Johann Theodor de Bry. This alchemical emblem book included 50 engraved emblems with an associated ’fugue’ or musical canon. In a sense this book with its integration of image, text and sound was one of the first attempts at multimedia. To make the emblematic images more accessible to the modern eye, I have hand-coloured the images, and have also re-created the music and made it more approachable to contemporary ears