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Flammarion engraving

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The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist. Its first documented appearance is in the book L'atmosphère : météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology"), published in 1888 by the French astronomer and writer Camille Flammarion. Several authors during the 20th century considered it to be either a Medieval or Renaissance artwork, but it is now seen as a 19th-century illustration of unknown authorship that imitates older artistic styles and themes. Camille Flammarion himself may have been the artist, or designer; he had trained as an engraver.

Flammarion engraving - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wood engraving in a 1888 book by Camille Flammarion A traveller peers through an opening in the firmament in this illustration from Camille Flammarion's L'atmosphère : météorologie populaire (Paris: Hachette, 1888), p. 163 The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist. Its first documented appearance is in the book L'atmosphère : météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology"), published in 1888 by the French astronomer and writer Camille Flammarion . [ 1 &#

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