The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metalware, furniture, glass and windows and numerous other domestic, devotional and political objects. At its most basic level simply a combination of symbolic visual image and texts.
Peter M. Daly has degrees from universities in Bristol and Zurich and spent most of his university career in Canada. His research and publications have been largely on emblems and German baroque literature.