Dioramas – the edge of the world, the end of the world and the time before

Posted on February 21, 2011 by

Before

Before - The Diorama of Hiroshima

After

After - The Diorama of Hiroshima

The beginning of the world

The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch, 1490-1510

A world in a world

Titan's Goblet, Thomas Cole, 1833

The edge of the world

A traveller at the edge of the world, Camille Flammarion, L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire, 1888

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One Response to Dioramas – the edge of the world, the end of the world and the time before

  1. Daniel Yanez says:
    February 21, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    Uff, them first two, definitively the end of the world! How sad and irresponsible!

    Love the usual alchemical feeling of Flammarion´s illustration.

    Cheers Matt.

    Reply

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