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Medusa is the most well-known of the three mythological monsters, having been variously portrayed as a monster, a protective symbol, a rallying symbol for liberty, and a sympathetic victim of rape and/or a curse. The Gorgons are best known by their hair of living venomous snakes and ability to turn living creatures to stone.
The art of the Middle Ages was mainly religious, reflecting the relationship between God and man, created in His image. The animal often appears confronted or dominated by man, but a second current of thought stemming from Saint Paul and Aristotle, which developed from the 12th century onwards, includes animals and humans in the same community of living creatures.
Pages in category "Medieval European legendary creatures" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Sassanid bowl with sitting griffin, gilted silver, from Iran.. The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Ancient Greek: γρύψ, romanized: grýps; Classical Latin: gryps or grypus; [1] Late and Medieval Latin: [2] gryphes, grypho etc.; Old French: griffon) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs.
Image credits: discarding_imgs The medieval era started in the 5th Century with the collapse of Roman civilization, lasting all the way to the Renaissance. When exactly the Middle Ages ended ...
A comic character; one of the gatekeepers at Arthur's court, subservient to Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr. [3] Killed in the hunt for Twrch Trwyth. [4] Petitcrieu: Petitcreiu, Petitcru, Pticru Tristan, 12th century Tristan and Iseult: A magical dog of Tristan and Iseult: Percival† (Welsh: Peredur) Perceval, Parzifal Erec and Enide, c. 1170
An Assyrian lamassu dated 721 BC.. Images of unions of different elements into one symbol were originally used by the Ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Greeks.The image of the sphinx, found in Egypt and Babylon, depicted the body of a lion and the head of a human, while the harpies of Greek mythology showed bird-like human women.
As a symbol of fertility, white rabbits appear on a wing of the high altar in Freiburg Minster. They are playing at the feet of two pregnant women, Mary and Elizabeth . Martin Schongauer 's engraving Jesus after the Temptation (1470) shows nine (three times three) rabbits at the feet of Jesus Christ, which can be seen as a sign of extreme vitality.