The Emblem Shelf
Isis, Mother of the Gods
Every goddess, gathered into one.
- Work
- from Oedipus Aegyptiacus
- Maker
- Athanasius Kircher
- Date
- 1652–1654
- Source
- Published Rome, 1652–1654 · scan: Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source plate — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Isis stands crowned, robed in stars, with every part of her lettered and explained in the columns beside her. Athanasius Kircher drew her for Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 1652–1654, after the Roman writer Apuleius, whose Isis names herself as Minerva, Venus, Ceres, Juno and the rest at once. Kircher lists those names down the left margin. The figure is a lesson in how the seventeenth century read the ancient world: one goddess as the key to all of them.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Isis, Mother of the Gods printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate — from Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652), held by Published Rome, 1652–1654 · scan: Wikimedia Commons. The work was published before 1931 and is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper; framed pieces sit behind acrylic, no mat.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans available, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the emblem line, the letterpress bite, the registration of colour — on stock made to outlive its owner.
