Correggio by Shirley Marie Dees

This artwork is from the Bronowski series. The entire image including frame is 48" x 20.25". The main image is taken from Correggio's Jupiter and Io c.1530. This artwork includes a drawing of Galileo's (or equivalent) telescope and the following text quoted from Jacob Bronowski's Ascent of Man:

"Galileo was a short, square, active man with red hair and rather more children than a bachelor should have... When he heard the news of the Flemish invention... he thought it out for himself in one night... He stepped the magnification up to eight or ten, and then he had a real telescope... [Then] to thirty, and he turned it on the stars. 'I have discovered four planets, neither known nor observed by any one of the astronomers before my time.' These were the satellites of Jupiter.