Загадочные существа (упоминание на картах, в живописи и т.п.).

Dance of Death, fresco by Simone II Baschenis. Pinzolo, Trentino-Alto Adige ~ 1539

Pinturicchio - Chimera. 1490

Морской дракон (Sea Dragon), 1490

Существа (Durga and Mahishasura. Chamba, India ~ ca.1830, Victoria and Albert Museum London)

Aquarelle von Säugetieren, Vögeln, Insekten und Pflanzen samt deutschen Legenden. Süddeutschland ~ 1600s; Zentralbibliothek Zürich. Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

Wonders of Creation of Al-Qazwini (17thc) Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Rothschild Machsor (Florence, c.1490)

Mambres contemplates the abyss he's just inadvertently opened with his spellbooks. From a scientific and geographic collection made in England around 1000 years ago

Lorenzo Lotto, 1524 - Giovan Francesco Capoferri, intarsia panel in Sta. Maria Maggiore, Bergamo, depicting the universe emerging from Primordial Darkness, 1524

From Die Muskete, 1918

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