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Today (22. April) being Earth Day, a few medieval depictions of the Earth in Creation scenes might not be unwelcome.
1) The first six days of Creation as portrayed in the twelfth-century mosaics of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo (left-clicking on the thumbnails expands the images; clicking on 'RETURN TO LIST' at the top of the expanded image brings one back to the menu of thumbnails):
http://tinyurl.com/6v3nrze
2) The thirteenth-century Creation mosaic in the basilica cattedrale di San Marco in Venice:
http://tinyurl.com/2cejf3m
A guide:
http://www.museumplanet.com/tour.php/venice/sm/66
Detail views (uncaptioned) begin near the bottom of this page:
http://tinyurl.com/7kxhhm7
and continue on this one:
http://tinyurl.com/6ogy4h4
3) The separation of the dry land from the waters, with the starry heaven in the background, as depicted in an early fifteenth-century copy of Guiard des Moulins' _Bible historiale_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 9, fol. 5r):
http://tinyurl.com/7j6y22l
4) Creation scenes (images are expandable) in a mid-fifteenth-century copy (1447) of Bartholomaeus Anglicus' _De proprietatibus rerum_ in its French-language translation by Jean Corbechon (Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 399. fol. 1r):
http://tinyurl.com/6oxbbmg
5) Creation scenes by the Master of the Annunciation of the Rambures Hours in another mid-fifteenth-century copy (ca. 1450) of Bartholomaeus Anglicus' _De proprietatibus rerum_ in its French-language translation by Jean Corbechon (London, BL, MS Cotton Augustus A vi, fol. 11r):
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/flemish/flemish010lge.html
6) Days Three and Four of Creation as depicted in a single image in a mid-fifteenth-century copy of Giovanni Colonna's _Mare historiarum_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 4915, fol. 22r):
http://tinyurl.com/7nwbpox
7) Creation scenes (starry heaven; birds of the air; beasts of the sea; beasts of the land and man) as depicted in a later fifteenth-century copy (before 1480) of an anonymous French-language translation of Ovid's _Metamorphoses_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 137, fol. 1r):
http://tinyurl.com/776vtcu
Best,
John Dillon
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