Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and The Americas

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By Julia Perratore, Laura Filloy Nadal, and Joanne Pillsbury Fantastical hybrid creatures have existed in art since the earliest cave paintings, created more than 50,000 years ago. This volume considers the universe of mythical beasts formed by artists from cultures in two parts of the world that had no direct contact prior to the fifteenth century: the ancient Americas—Latin America before 1600—and western medieval Europe. Authors explore how Indigenous traditions and lore of the European Middle Ages…