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OCR: hll In this painting the canopy af stars suggests a limitless universe and confirms that the sacred family is advancing within the vast unknawn under the protection of the celestial wonders Elsheimer's desire ta give an accurate description f the sky is manifest in his depiction of the constella- tions of the Great Bear Arcturus, and the Pleiades Surprisingly he painted the Milky Way's aggregate f stars rather than tr the ld artistic con- vention fa uniform band of light running acrass the sky; he thus his familiarity with recent advances scientific the century Galilean astronomy generated reverberations that t rocked European culture Astronomical references pervade Milton's Paradise Lost ane of the great warks of the period and the first casmic poem f the moderm ere in which drama plays i ...