while others portray the manticore as a goat-like animal without any noticeable human characteristics. Unicorns were a popular feature of medieval bestiaries—but they weren’t the only ...

This exhibition, the first ever dedicated to the bestiary, gathers together more than a hundred works from institutions across the United States and Europe, including one-third of the world’s ...

Inherited from Classical culture, medieval sirens were depicted ... According to the encyclopedic books about animals known as Bestiaries, the manticore was one of the cruellest animals, taking ...

Bestiaries combined both real and imaginary animals. And contrary to what was once assumed, medieval people did ... which dates from 1400–1425. The manticore had a lion’s body and, often ...