Who do think is the artist? It looked like William Blake to me, but I've never seen Latin in Blake's work.
This is the question I asked myself as I looked at these images on the wonderful blog BiblioOdyssey. Apparently they from a book of drawings called De Aetatibus Mundi Imagines (Images from the Ages of the World) by the sixteenth-century Portuguese artist who at one point studied with Michelangelo. You can read more about him on the original blog (whose author and commentators also saw similarities with Blake, as well as with illustrations from alchemical books), for the moment I will leave you with a few groovy images.
The blog commentators also commented on the proto-surrealism of the praying mantus on the frontspiece.
Rock the apocalypse.
I repeat: groovy.
