Guide to images in The Horn Book
- davebuchen
- Jun 8
- 1 min read
Updated: Jul 3

Title Page - Louis Armstrong
Introduction - Etruscan bronze funerary urn with Scythian mounted archer, mid-5th century BCE
Bicorn - Napoleon Crossing the Alps painting by French artist Jacques-Louis David
Bucráneo - Sacra Capilla del Salvador in Spain
Germanic Languages - From the Codex Manesse published in Switzerland in the 1300s
Charivari - French manuscript illustration of The Feast of Fools from the 1300s
Cheers - From the movie “Casablanca” with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman
Italic Languages- From a Roman mosaic
Italian - Italian actor Ninetto Davoli
Spanish/Cara - Puertorrican singer Ismael Rivera who sang “Las Caras Lindas”
Hart - From an English bestiary published in the 1200s
Hornbook - Painting by Adriaen van Ostade, 1661
Iranian Languages - Cyrus the Great, illustration from the 1800s
Matterhorn - Family photo
Celtic Languages - Cernunnos, god of fertility, the underworld, and bidirectionality. Image form the Gundestrop Cauldron
Tricorn - Painting by Ronald Simmons
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