Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Pantagruel I














Just superb! François Desprez. 1565. More to come. See also: Pantagruel II.
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8 comments:

  1. misteraitch07 June, 2006 06:28

    What a great find! Nearly contemporary with Rabelais, too… I look forward to seeing more. I’d not heard of Desprez before.

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  2. Claytonian10 June, 2006 15:28

    wow I do believe I love this site

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  3. Stewart C. Russell13 June, 2006 10:17

    A selection of these images is available as a Dover book, Curious and Fantastic Creatures: 122 Bizarre Beings, ISBN 0486284638

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  4. peacay13 June, 2006 14:27

    Thanks Stewart. Here's the Dover link or go here for a look inside (first time I've done that. Basta! Can't even take a decent screencap) $6.95.

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  5. Unknown14 June, 2008 00:52

    over here

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  6. peacay14 June, 2008 00:56

    Oh yeah, thanks Popeye. I put the reference to this work (the BVH site you linked to) in the second Pantagruel post.

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  7. SF Lyons29 May, 2010 12:04

    Letting you know I've used a couple of the images above to create a background image for my Twitter homepage, here: http://twitter.com/sflyons

    Breathtaking collection of stuff you have on this site. I've never seen anything like it.

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  8. GRAZA11 February, 2011 02:42

    would like to think that "modern" art is not always done today.
    old masters in their relation to reality, very modern.
    Without exception they are different from us so that all your fantasies projected onto his era. And we (almost) always send all of their fantasies in the past .. (

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