I met Bruce Brenneise who did the cover art for the 5E Spelljammer book at the Detroit ComicCon this weekend. Very nice guy and I quite liked his work. When he mentioned he also did Numenara I realized why I recognized it. He told me he tried really hard to be true to the spirit of the original artwork, which I appreciated considering the nature of other art we've been seeing from WotC.
:) Cool info that the artist recalled the past aesthetic and wanted to retain its spirit. Thanks for sharing!
Cool dude, cool art, cool settings.
It is always good to hear that the original take of a setting is respected in its newer iteration; I have always had a profound foundness for spelljammer.