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Guide to images in The Horn Book

  • davebuchen
  • 3 days ago
  • 1 min read

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

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- Puertorican 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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