Wednesday, April 19, 2006

(8) Orion and the Dresden Codex


POSTCARD showing a woodcut illustration of Orion from an edition of Hyginus, and the detail from the Dresden Codex. The idea of putting the stars in Orion's belt on something a person is carrying might have come from the European illustration, or from the Dresden Codex, or both.

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