Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem III
Vade ad mulierem lavantem pannos, tu fac similiter.
Go to the woman washing clothes; do the same.
Emblem III
The model for the work is the humblest labour there is: washing, again and again, until the stain lifts. It is the image of the albedo.
A question to carry
What in you needs washing rather than fixing?
Emblem of the day
Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1618), with the Latin motto, a translation and a reading for each plate.
Engraving in the public domain.