{"id":5085,"date":"2017-10-04T13:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T21:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=5085"},"modified":"2022-08-09T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T23:13:40","slug":"orbis-sensualium-pictus-1659","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/history\/orbis-sensualium-pictus-1659\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Orbis sensualium pictus<\/em>, 1659"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Orbis-sensualium-pictus.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1584\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5087\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Orbis-sensualium-pictus.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;&lt;em\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Orbis-sensualium-pictus.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Orbis-sensualium-pictus-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Orbis-sensualium-pictus-768x1217.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Orbis-sensualium-pictus-646x1024.jpg 646w, https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Orbis-sensualium-pictus-900x1426.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Orbis sensualium pictus<\/em>, sometimes described as the first children\u2019s picture-book, sought to use animal sounds to teach children the alphabet.\u00a0\u00a0The author, Jan Amos Komensk\u00fd, who took the Latin name Comenius, was an early champion of universal education. The book was originally published in German and Latin, and translated into English the following year by Charles Hoole, an English cleric and educational writer. A sheet from that translation is displayed above.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rembrandt&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Portrait of an Old Man in an Armchair,<\/em>\u00a01665, now<em>\u00a0<\/em>in the Uffizi Art Gallery in Florence, bears a strong resemblance to other known portraits of Comenius. I believe that both men were in Amsterdam in 1660.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5088\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Portrait_of_an_Old_Man_Rembrandt.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5088\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5088\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Portrait_of_an_Old_Man_Rembrandt.jpg\" alt=\"Old Man in an Armchair (Jan Amos Comenius?), ca. 1660-1665, by Rembrant. Oil on canvas. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, 69.234.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Portrait_of_an_Old_Man_Rembrandt.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Portrait_of_an_Old_Man_Rembrandt-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Portrait_of_an_Old_Man_Rembrandt-768x934.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Portrait_of_an_Old_Man_Rembrandt-842x1024.jpg 842w, https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Portrait_of_an_Old_Man_Rembrandt-900x1094.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Man in an Armchair (Jan Amos Comenius?), ca. 1660-1665, by Rembrant. Oil on canvas. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, 69.234.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching the alphabet with animal sounds, 1659.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[35,24],"tags":[135,134,136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5763,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions\/5763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}