The “quincunx” pattern, with accompanying Latin inscription, taken from the frontispiece to Browne’s 17th-century masterpiece The Garden of Cyrus, the central figure upon which he weaves his mystical vision of the interconnection of art, nature, and the Universe.
Featured on PDR in the essay A Bestiary of Sir Thomas Browne
Hugh Aldersey-Williams takes a tour through Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, a work which sees one of the 17th-century's greatest writers stylishly debunk all manner of myths, in particular those relating to the world of animals.
Also appearing in the essay…
The “quincunx” pattern, with accompanying Latin inscription.
Artist
Date
1658
From
The Garden of Cyrus
