Mythical Creatures

Mythical Creatures Mythical Creatures • • • • • Gods and Guardians Monsters and Demons Mythological Characters Hybrids Other Famed Fantastic Beasts To continue: Click on any one of the purple buttons to view the images in that category. Or click on the screen to view the entire show. A small white button will appear in the lower righthand corner of some of the slides. You may click on the button if you wish to view a detail of that image, or click on the screen to continue to the next image. Olmec ceremonial ax featuring jaguar god Mexico, 1500-300 BC Wind god (fujin, left) and thunder god (raijin, right) Japan, Kamakura period, 13th century Chimera Etruria, 5th-4th century BC Chimera (p’i-hsieh) China, 2nd-3rd century AD Tomb guardian China, Tang period, c. 8th century AD Taotieh China, Shang period, c.1300-1030 BC Hieronymus Bosch Garden of Delights: detail from right panel (Hell) Netherlands, c. 1505-10 Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Fall of the Rebel Angels: detail Flanders, 1562 After Pieter Bruegel, Grotesque Figure (Envy) Flanders, 1565 Martin Schongauer, St. Anthony Tormented by the Demons Germany, c. 1480-90 Matthias Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece: Temptation of St. Anthony (detail) Germany, 1510-15 Odilon Redon, “And all sorts of frightful beasts surge”, from Temptation of St. Anthony France, late 19th century Salvador Dali, Temptation of St. Anthony early 20th century Gaki zoshi (Scroll of Hungry Ghosts) Japan, Late Heian period, 12th century Albrecht Durer, Knight, Death, and the Devil Germany, 1513 Caravaggio, Medusa Italy, 1596-98 (?) Peter Paul Rubens, Two Satyrs Netherlands, c.1615-17 Pegasus, from Aratea Carolingian, 9th century (Leiden, University Museum, Ms. Voss. Lat. Q. 79, fol. 32 v) Sandro Botticelli, Pallas and Centaur Italy, late 15th century Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1570 edition map of Italy: detail with Neptune and mermaid Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1570 edition map of Scandinavia and British Isles: detail with musician hybrid Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux, text page (ad vesperas) with hybrid marginalia France, c. 1325 (New York, Cloisters, Ms. 54.1.2, fol. 166) Initial from Park Bible (London, British Museum, Add. Ms. 14788) Moralia in Job, initial R with St. George and the Dragon France, 12th century (Dijon, Bibliotheque municipale, Ms. 168, fol. 4v) Mawangdui banner: detail with sun, moon, and dragons China, early Han period, 206 BC-9 AD Great Sphinx, Egypt, c. 2530 BC Gargoyles, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris, 13th century Unicorn seal India, Indus Valley period, 3rd millenium BC Lady with the Unicorn, France, c. 1450-1500 The End