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Joris Hoefnagel

Guide for Constructing the Letter V

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Joris Hoefnagel

Guide for Constructing the Letter V, 1591–1596

Watercolors, gold and silver paint, and ink

Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Snakes twist around cedar trees. Swords pierce upward. Mountains frame the golden grid. This V is a landscape of mythic scale, somewhere between Eden and an epic.

This artwork is held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

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