Livre de poissons. 1580. Arts The title of the offering

The title of the offering is also given in hieroglyphics to allow everyone to identify the words on the stone

scattered "like so many seeds spat into the water

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Exposition «La fabrique des collections« : dans le prolongement de la saison d'inauguration d'un musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon «métamorphosé«

Livre de poissons. 1580. Arts The title of the offeringThere are certain works that are worlds in their own right. The Book of Fishes (Visboeck, in Dutch) by Adriaen Coenen (1514 1587) is one of them. After living his entire life by the sea, as a fisherman, then as an auctioneer at the Scheveningen auction, Adriaen Coenen, at the age of 63, undertook the creation, between 1577 and 1580, of his Book of Fishes, a unique work, in the full sense of the word, exceptional, where each page reveals astonishing