The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel is an accompanying work of François Rabelais’ The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel. The woodcuts are wonderfully creepy, and well worth a look even though they were most certainly not done by Rabelais.
The Public Domain has an article up about this work, and there’s an excellent post about it at Poemas del río Wang. Or, you can head right to the original images at Gallica.
Codpieces! Codpieces everywhere!
Yep, the man musta spent alot of time off the Grand Banks!
I’m relieved I’m not the only one who noticed.
There are some world class codpieces in this; these don’t even come close, they’re relatively low key.
So I’m not the only one who noticed all the codpieces. Fewf!
You can hardly miss them!
Some of the codpieces in that article have faces and one was so large it had wheels to carry it!
Yep! Could just have well been called Terrifying Codpieces. :D