Crispin van de Passe's perfect elephant as featured in his 't Light der teken en schilderkonst (1643).
Featured on PDR in the essay Elephants, Horses, and the Proportions of Paradise
Does each species have an optimal form? An ideal beauty that existed prior to the Fall? These were questions that concerned both artists and breeders alike in the 17th century. Dániel Margócsy on the search for a menagerie of perfect prelapsarian geometry.
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Perfect Elephant
Date
1643
From
't Light der teken en schilderkonst
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