ZODIACS - ANCIENT GREEK Three zodiacs, from ancient Greek cameos, and a representation of Saturnus, the agricultural god, from a Greek cameo, all four engravings by Boitard. Top left: the twelve images of the twelve signs circle around a central Sun. Top right: The twelve images, each located within their own thirty-degree chamber, swing around cosmic images, which include the Sun and Moon in their chariots, and Zeus with his eagle. Bottom left: the outer concentric portrays the seven planets of the ancient astrological system - the inner concentric portrays the twelve images of
ZODIACS - ANCIENT GREEK Three zodiacs, from ancient Greek cameos, and a representation of Saturnus, the agricultural god, from a Greek cameo, all four engravings by Boitard. Top left: the twelve images of the twelve signs circle around a central Sun. Top right: The twelve images, each located within their own thirty-degree chamber, swing around cosmic images, which include the Sun and Moon in their chariots, and Zeus with his eagle. Bottom left: the outer concentric portrays the seven planets of the ancient astrological system - the inner concentric portrays the twelve images of the signs of the zodiac, while at the centre is Apollo with his flutes, and the laurel branch. From Lord Shaftesbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, 1713.
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