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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 .
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The "Flammarion engraving", 1888. Camille Flammarion was born in Montigny-le-Roi, Haute-Marne, France. He was the brother of Ernest Flammarion (1846–1936), the founder of the Groupe Flammarion publishing house. In 1858 he became a professional at computery at the Paris Observatory.
The famous "Flat Earth" Flammarion engraving originates with Flammarion's 1888 L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire (p. 163). The myth of the flat Earth, or the flat-Earth error, is a modern historical misconception that European scholars and educated people during the Middle Ages believed the Earth to be flat. [1] [2]
Collection of André Le Nôtre, given to the king of France in 1693: Paris, musée du Louvre: 102/69 Camillus and the schoolmaster of Falerii: 1634–1635 c. 101 x 137 cm: Owned by the princes de Schaumbourg-Lippe in the 18th century. Formerly in the collection of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. Acquired by the museum in 1970
Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), French astronomer and author; Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1877–1962), French astronomer, second wife of Camille Flammarion; Sylvie Flammarion (1836-1919), French feminist and pacifist, first wife of Camille Flammarion; Flammarion engraving by unknown artist; appeared in a book by Camille Flammarion
I think it's unacceptable to give precedence to the colorized version over Flammarion's original. For starters, Flammarion's version is a Wikipedia Featured Picture, and it's completely illogical to demote it to a tiny thumbnail in the article about it. Second, Flammarion's version is, as far as we can ascertain, the original engraving. The ...
Léonce Bénédite (14 January 1859 – 12 May 1925) was a French art historian and curator. He was a co-founder of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français (Society for French Orientalist Painters) and was instrumental in establishing Orientalist art as a legitimate genre.