Talk:Flammarion woodcut

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In my opinion this woodcut does not depict an astronomer peering through the Earth's atmosphere to see the universe, but a man piercing the "veil" and seeing beyond the physical plane into the astral plane and beyond. Such is clearly evident by the intangible nature of the world he beholds beyond the veil. -wanderingOne

He's looking backstage. You can tell because they're keeping all the rigs and pulleys back there, and old props like Ezekiel's wheel.

[edit] Redundancy?

I challenge the removal of . This article is about an artwork, and thus a colorized version is hardly redundant. Had it been an article that referenced the piece, then sure. --HantaVirus 13:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

But why this particular colorization, and not any of the myriad others in circulation? The image you bring up is not even one of the better known colorizations (see, e.g., the cover illustration to Boorstin's The Discoverers). (And, incidentally, what's with the peculiar "Urbi et Orbi" caption?) I personally think that the original woodcut more than suffices to illustrate this article. -- Eb.hoop 15:39, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I totally agree with you. The article is about the woodcut. Not about the colorized versions people have made. The colorized version does nothing for the article. Everything is illustrated by the original woodcut. Nlm1515 22:38, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

THere seem to be at least five or six other colourings http://images.google.co.uk/images?as_q=&um=1&hl=en&newwindow=1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=flammarion+woodcut&as_oq=&as_eq=&imgtype=&imgsz=&as_filetype=&imgc=color&as_sitesearch=&safe=off&as_st=y 80.2.192.102 (talk) 13:37, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

How many of you have actually read the article???? as in:

"is an anonymous wood engraving"

The article is primarily about the fact that this is not a medieval woodcut but a much later wood engraving. Seems to me that people should read first and comment later. To forestall the inevitable: miaow.Freiherrin (talk) 19:40, 7 January 2008 (UTC) And before I forget again, that should also require the change of title to Flammarion wood engraving or, failing that, Flammarion "woodcut". Incorrect destription on the image page should also be changed.Freiherrin (talk) 19:44, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removed trivia + external link

I've removed "The ending of the film The Truman Show may have been inspired by the Flammarion woodcut." from the article, which was all of the Trivia section, as there is no evidence for it. Cite a source saying that it was, and it can go back into the article. I've also removed the external link, as it doesn't work. Mike Peel 09:44, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• I came to this page to suggest a mention of The Truman Show! It seems a pity to remove that earlier mention; perhaps it could be reworded "The Flammarion Woodcut finds a cinematic echo in the ending of the film The Truman Show where the hero bumps into, and penetrates, the edge of his universe"? Andrew K Robinson 15:06, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A similar illustration?

"the depiction of a spherical heavenly vault separating the earth from an outer realm is similar to an illustration in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia of 1544" says the article. It would be nice to have a link or picture of this other illustration for comparison purposes. The woodcut on the Sebastian Munster page does not look similar. Also more about when the illustration may have been created or not. 80.2.192.102 (talk) 13:31, 10 May 2008 (UTC)