By Konrad Lykosthenes
Featured on PDR in the collection Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Liceti likened nature to an artist who, faced with some imperfection in the materials to be shaped, ingeniously creates another form still more admirable.
Also appearing in the collection…
Image of a blemmyes
Date
1557
From
Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon
Image Size
1370 x 1368