Baccio Baldini (attr.), The planets and their “children"

INTRODUCTION
- Man and the stars
SECTION I
- The dawn of astronomy: Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Biblical Cosmos
SECTION II
- The cosmos becomes a sphere
SECTION III
- The geometry of the cosmos
SECTION IV
- The skies of Islam
SECTION V
- Evangelisation of the cosmos
SECTION VI
- The Renaissance of Astronomy
SECTION VII
- Galileo: the cosmos through the telescope
SECTION VIII
- From Galileo to Newton

Baccio Baldini (attr.), The planets and their “children"

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Baccio Baldini (attr.) (1436?-1487)
The planets and their "children", ca. 1460
Pavia, Museo Civico, inv. 1585-1591

These engravings show the temperament and inclination of the "children" of Mercury, Venus, Saturn, the Sun and the Moon. Beneath the allegorical figure of the heavenly body we see men and women going about the tasks towards which that heavenly body's influence prompts them to incline.