A selection of these precursors to modern comic books from about 1263 to 1700. Some are based on rectangles, but others are arranged in the round.
Beham
Introduction from Roman times through the late Middle Ages into the Renaissance. The main types of visual narrative, why they were so important, and how sophisticated they became.
Example paintings showing instantaneous, multi-image, multi-frame and polymythic narrative, from Poussin to Waterhouse.
Bosch’s Passion Scenes is an unusual painting, combining multi-frame and multiplex narrative in the round. Is it unique?
