# @gettymuseum on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbBhJVbzjTw
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/68096069-gettymuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-07-20T17:51:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

## Caption

Five hundred years before we landed on the moon, imaginative medieval manuscript makers created these moon masterpieces. 

Happy #MoonDay to all that celebrate! 🌚

📚:
1. Alexander the Great Returning to his Army; Alexander the Great Consulting the Prophetic Trees of the Sun and the Moon, about 1400–1410, Unknown, illuminator and Jansen Enikel, author. Getty Museum
2. The Creation of Heaven and Earth, The Separation of Light and Darkness, The Separation of Water and Land, The Creation of Birds and Fishes, The Creation of Animals, The Creation of Eve, about 1400–1410, Unknown, illuminator and Rudolf von Ems, author. Getty Museum
3. The Creation, about 1480–1490, Unknown, illuminator. Getty Museum
4. The Creation of the World, 1637–1638, Malnazar, illuminator and Aghap'ir, illuminator. Getty Museum
5. The Circumcision, about 1400–1410, Unknown, illuminator and Brother Philipp, author. Getty Museum
6. The Moon Represented as a Woman on Horseback, shortly after 1464, Unknown, illuminator. Getty Museum
7. The Story of Adam and Eve, about 1413–1415, Boucicaut Master, illuminator. Getty Museum

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