Imagining the Heavens: Adam Elsheimer’s 'Flight into Egypt' and the Renaissance Night Sky
Adam Elsheimer’s 'The Flight into Egypt' (1609) has triggered a longstanding debate among art historians. For the last five decades, Elsheimer’s novel naturalistic representation of the night sky in his painting on copper has been linked to Galileo’s telescopic observations. To explain the...
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Ubiquity Press
2021-04-01
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| Series: | Journal for the History of Knowledge |
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| Online Access: | https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/3 |