Les images des dievx: contenant levrs pourtraits, coustumes & ceremonies de la religion des payens
Les images des dievx is a 1624 French illustrated handbook of pagan gods, translated from Vincenzo Cartari's Italian by Antoine Du Verdier with text by Étienne Laplonce Richette, and held by Heidelberg University Library. Its woodcuts show deities in classical dress with attributes, set in rocky, cloudy landscapes beside Latin-style captions. Designers might take its costumed figures, emblematic props and sky-filled backgrounds as a model for mythological figure work.
