From “Nicolas Flamel: His Expositions of the Hieroglyphical Figures (1624).” This inscription is taken from a book published by famed Parisian alchemist Nicholas Flamel. This depiction is part of a series of images that Flamel commissioned to be painted upon an arch within the Cemetery of Innocents. The arch was intended to depict a series of “strange images” found within a magical tome that was said to hold information on the creation of the “Elixir of Life” -- The Philosopher’s Stone. We have no physical record of the arch’s existence, as the entire cemetery was exhumed and moved into the Paris Catacombs before being demolished due to overcrowding.
Details:
7x9” print
screen printed on medium weight paper
bagged and boarded for protection
your package includes an artist card that describes the history of the work of art you received
