This summer visitors to the Getty Center in Los Angeles can explore Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World, an exhibition which looks to a genre of medieval manuscripts called ...

The medieval illuminated manuscript known as the Aberdeen Bestiary is one of the most lavish of its kind. Heavily encrusted in gold leaf and filled with paintings of beasts that illustrate lengthy ...

If its monsters were part of a medieval bestiary, perhaps the Barroth would be seen as a repentant sinner, humbling itself before god in the mud that becomes his divine protection.

A medieval illiterate peasant would have heard such a cautionary tale in church, for the devil metaphorically works in much the same way on humans. Thus was the bestiary a work of universal ...

A Bestiary of the AnthropoceneEdited and introduced by Nicolas Nova and Disnovation.org Onomatopee. Capturing the bizarre yet familiar territory of our “post-natural” world, A Bestiary of the ...

It was long believed that the Aberdeen Bestiary was published exclusively for the wealthy elite. Details revealed by a high-definition digitization suggest it had a humbler origin. The bestiary ...

Bestiaries—brilliantly illustrated compendiums of real and fantastic creatures—take center stage at the Getty Museum’s new exhibition.

Read: “The Grand Medieval Bestiary” (2018) If the often strange and absurd depictions of animals during this era are your thing, this 587-image compendium of the Medieval animal kingdom (both ...

For illustrators in medieval Europe, depicting animals like elephants that they’d never set eyes on was a key part of their task to shape the morality of humankind. What mattered most was what ...

PIC-310 Bestiary. 3 Credits. PIC-310-01. Tuesday. 10:00 am – 12:50 pm. ... The concept of the Medieval Bestiary will serve as area of research and a schema for the creation of a novel compendiums of ...

This theme is repeated in the medieval bestiary tradition, a moralising compendium of knowledge about animals both real and mythical. One common story tells of the legendary King Garamantes who, ...