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"The Sun,the Moon and a Basilisk", around 1512. The sun, the moon and the basilisk (half eagle, half serpent,hatched from a cock's egg by a serpent), together represent Eternity. This small drawing is a fragment from a translation of the "Hieroglyphica" by Horapollo, translated by Willibald Pirkheimer, a foremost humanist and close friend of Duerer. PD 1932-7-9-2
Location
British Museum/London/Great Britain
Unique Identifier
ART211340
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Image
Purpose
Public
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2991px × 4000px
Photo Credit
Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY
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16th century CE
Basilisk
Drawing
Fantastic Creature
German
Moon
Renaissance
Sun