bestiary - A collection of allegories with descriptions of real or imagined animals. In the numerous bestiaries of the Middle Ages, along with some accurate observations of natural history, some common misconceptions were preserved as well.
Bestiary: Natural history book in the Middle Ages, with references to real and fantastical beasts, and theological text: the images later influenced artists and architects.
The result is a contemporary bestiary; unlike the medieval bestiary with its sirens and unicorns, its insect knights and locust warriors, which were also typical of Oriental frescoes and the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel, ...
Dali's bestiary broke loose from reality at the end of 1926 to become altogether fantastic during 1928, which marked a very important period of transition in the painter's work.
The Nazca bestiary was extraordinarily varied: it included monkeys, snakes, felines, and. above all, fish and aquatic mammals, which were represented as particularly ferocious.
In the strictest definition of illuminated manuscript, only manuscripts decorated with gold or silver, like this miniature of Christ in Majesty from the Aberdeen Bestiary (folio 4v), would be considered illuminated. ...
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