Tuesday, November 14, 2006

World Map in Six "Continents"

Jean LePautre Paris, 1673 :Le Soleil qui se couche dans la mer...

Le Globe de la Terre, divisé en six parties. 16 x 11.5 inches.

via cosmography

View Metamorphic Designs (graveurs in the album of prints published by Mariette,

Ovid Illustrated: The Renaissance Receptionof Ovid in Image and Text, Paris, ca. 1660)

1 comment:

Diane Dehler said...

This is wonderful Moon. The movement of the horses make them seem like waves or foam. The kind of horses that one rides in dreams.