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Thanks!

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I don't think anyone knows who the artist is.


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This is one of my favorite images, in_sherman's right, the artist is anonymous, here's all the info I've found about it:

Camille Flammarion, L'Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888), p. 163.

The Flammarion Woodcut is an enigmatic woodcut by an unknown artist. It is referred to as the Flammarion Woodcut because its first documented appearance is in page 163 of Camille Flammarion's L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire (Paris, 1888), a work on meteorology for a general audience. The woodcut depicts a man peering through the Earth's atmosphere as if it were a curtain to look at the inner workings of the universe.

The caption in Flammarion's book translates as "A missionary of the Middle Ages tells that he had found the point where the sky and the Earth touched..." The image accompanies a text which reads, in part, "What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?" The print is often described as being medieval due to its visual style, its fanciful vision of the world, and to what appears to be a depiction of a flat Earth.

In 1957, astronomer Ernst Zinner claimed that the image was a Germanic artwork dating from the mid-16th century, but he was unable to find any version published earlier than 1906.[2] Further investigation, however, revealed that the work was a composite of images characteristic of different historical periods, and that it had been made with a burin, the engraver's tool, only used on wood for wood engraving from the late 18th century. The image was traced to Flammarion's book by Arthur Beer, an astrophysicist and historian of German science at Cambridge and, independently, by Bruno Weber, the curator of rare books at the Zürich central library.[3]

According to Weber and to astronomer Joseph Ashbrook,[4] the depiction of a spherical heavenly vault separating the earth from an outer realm is similar to an illustration in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia of 1544, a book which Flammarion, an ardent bibliophile and book collector, might have owned. The idea of a pilgrim finding the place where the Earth and sky meet might have been inspired by a legend associated with Saint Macarius of Rome, a legend which Flammarion recounts in detail in his book Les mondes imaginaires et les mondes réels ("The Imaginary Worlds and the Real Worlds", 1865). Flammarion had been apprenticed at the age of twelve to an engraver in Paris and it is believed that many of the illustrations for his books were engraved from his own drawings, probably under his supervision. Therefore it is plausible that Flammarion himself created the image, though this has not been conclusively ascertained.

The image was used as the cover illustration for Daniel J. Boorstin's The Discoverers (1983), an account of the history of science. The Flammarion woodcut has also been used in many other contexts to illustrate either the scientific or the mystical quests for knowledge.

References

  1. ^ Flammarion, Camille (1888). L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology"), 163.
  2. ^ E. Zinner, in Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel, Frankfurt, 18 March 1957
  3. ^ B. Weber, in Gutenberg Jahrbuch, p. 381, 1973
  4. ^ J. Ashbrook, Sky & Telescope, p. 356, May 1977


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If you like that kind of stuff, also look up artwork by Robert Fludd, and William Blake.....    :thumbup:


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