Codex Seraphinianus

The Codex Seraphinianus is a 360 page “visual encyclopedia of an unknown world” written (in it’s own un-deciphered language) and illustrated by Italian architect Luigi Serafini.  The book took thirty months to create from 1976-78.  It’s as if Ernst Haeckel too much acid, disappeared into the woods and updated Art Forms of Nature.  The entire book has been digitized here

  

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