Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures: 1,087 Renderings from Historic Sources (Dover Pictorial Archive)

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Drawing on centuries of history, this work is an encyclopedic collection — unquestionably the most important royalty-free number of its type — of devils, dragons, legendary creatures, fanciful beasts, animal-gods, totemic figures, and different supernatural beasts from the darker regions of man’s imagination. Spanning many cultures and eras, the gathering ranges from prehistoric rock paintings to the drawings of Max Ernst, from the masks of black Africa to the gargoyles of Notre Dame.
This volume incudes over 1,000 renderings of designs from ancient Egypt, Greece, and the Middle East: winged lions, harpies, griffins, satyrs, dragons, and more. Medieval centuries are represented by a wealth of monsters, demons, centaurs, and different creatures from The Book of Kells, anonymous Viking artists, and the works of Hieronymus Bosch, Dürer, and others. World in scope, this vast trove also includes masses of non-European imagery: papier-mache masks from Latin The united states, Oriental deities and demons, feathered serpents from pre-Columbian Aztec and Mayan sources, Navajo sand paintings, and more.

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