Beasts Factual and Fantastic

$19.95 at The Getty Museum.

Elizabeth Morrison  Beasts Factual and Fantastic is the first in a series of small, affordable books that draw on manuscript illuminations from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Each volume focuses on a particular theme or subject as represented by medieval artists. Often, as in the case of the imaginary beasts that readers will encounter in this volume, artists depicted that which they did not see or know but which was nonetheless shaped by the prevailing beliefs, fears, and rudimentary science of the…