They were said to be the mortal enemies of dragons—just as elephants represented Christ, dragons represented the devil—and several medieval illustrations showed elephants giving birth in lakes ...

There’s a reason why Medieval art is particularly ... imagines people from centuries ago taking delight in some of the illustrations in the same way, like one small depiction of a cat churning ...

Before the stylistic shifts that defined the Renaissance, medieval illustrations often featured flat, unrealistic figures and fantastical scenes. But the details that make these drawings so ...

Medieval scribes took their animal illustrations very seriously. In a time when pigs were seen as a real danger and animals were trialled in court, it should be no surprise that the scribes of the ...

How do you spice up the dull task of copying line after line of a medieval manuscript? Some monks added lighthearted touches to the marginalia of their manuscripts by doodling murderous beasts ...

Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, by Chet Van Duzer, and Sea Monsters: A Voyage around the World’s Most Beguiling Map, by Joseph Nigg, both focus exclusively on illustrations ...

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where it seemingly annotates the colours of the plant illustrations. Elsewhere, there is probable Arabic and Greek, and a sketch of a shield. The medieval symbol for the inhabited world ...

Design beautiful (or strange) medieval illustrations in Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts. Check out the Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts reveal trailer to see what to expect with some funny ...

Researchers identified its more distant origin. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval scribes filled volumes called bestiaries with illustrations and descriptions of fantastic creatures. The manuscripts ...