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    Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures: 1,087 Renderings from Historic Sources
    Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures: 1,087 Renderings from Historic Sources
    Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures: 1,087 Renderings from Historic Sources
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    Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures: 1,087 Renderings from Historic Sources

    By Richard Huber

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    Drawing on centuries of history, this work is an encyclopedic collection — undoubtedly the largest royalty-free collection of its kind — of devils, dragons, mythical creatures, fanciful beasts, animal-gods, totemic figures, and other supernatural beasts from the darker regions of man's imagination. Spanning many cultures and eras, the collection ranges from prehistoric rock paintings to the drawings of Max Ernst, from the masks of black Africa to the gargoyles of Notre Dame.
    This volume incudes over 1,000 renderings of designs from ancient Egypt, Greece, and the Middle East: winged lions, harpies, griffins, satyrs, dragons, and more. Medieval centuries are represented by a wealth of monsters, demons, centaurs, and other creatures from The Book of Kells, anonymous Viking artists, and the works of Hieronymus Bosch, Dürer, and others. Global in scope, this vast trove also includes hundreds of non-European imagery: papier-mache masks from Latin America, Oriental deities and demons, feathered serpents from pre-Columbian Aztec and Mayan sources, Navajo sand paintings, and more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateMay 27, 2013
    ISBN9780486319094
    Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures: 1,087 Renderings from Historic Sources

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    Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures - Richard Huber

    TREASURY OF FANTASTIC AND MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES

    1,087 Renderings from Historic Sources

    by

    Richard Huber

    DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. NEW YORK

    PUBLISHER’S NOTE

    Richard Huber has combed many sources to assemble the images that follow, most of them coming from the dark side of man’s imagination. Some of these creatures are the product of mythology, legend or religion and appear in a variety of interpretations: the Chimera, the Sphinx, Satan, dragons and mermaids. Others are the creations of individual imaginations, and appear only once: the bizarre concoctions of Hieronymus Bosch or Salvador Dali. The selection spans time and culture, from prehistoric rock paintings to Max Ernst, from the masks of black Africa to the gargoyles of Notre Dame. All have been rendered faithfully in crisp black-and-white illustrations that lend themselves to use as spot illustrations or simply as a source of inspiration to designers and craftsmen.

    Copyright © 1981 by Richard Huber.

    All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.

    Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures: 1,087 Renderings from Historic Sources is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1981.

    DOVER Pietorial Archive SERIES

    This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.)

    However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic service whether it be in a book or in any other design resource is strictly prohibited.

    International Standard Book Number: 0-486-24174-2

    Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 81-67036

    Manufactured in the United States of America

    Dover Publications, Inc.

    31 East 2nd Street

    Mineola, N.Y. 11501

    Table of Contents

    Illustrations

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    Index

    Plate 1. ANCIENT EGYPT. 1. Thoth, from a tomb painting at Thebes. 2. Humanized buffalo head, Palette of King Namer, Hierakonpolis, ca. 3100 B.C. 3. Sphinx, from a papyrus. 4. Bai, or soul-bird, from a Book of the Dead. 5. Composite creature, from a papyrus. 6. Ra-Horakhte, from a painting at Thebes, 800 B.C. 7. Bai, or soul-bird, from a papyrus. 8. Three gods, from a papyrus. 9. Fish-tailed goat, zodiac figure from a sarcophagus, Thebes.

    Plate 2. ANCIENT EGYPT. 1. From Karnak. 2. Bai, or soul-bird, from a wall painting, 13th century B.C. 3. Nehebka. 4. Anubis, from a papyrus. 5. Osiris. 6. Uraeus, from the tomb of Amenhotep II. 7. Centaur, from a sarcophagus, 2nd century A.D.

    Plate 3. ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST. 1. The demon Pazuzu, from a Mesopota-mian bronze amulet, 9th—7th centuries B.C. 2. Assyrian winged lion with human head, from the palace of Assurnasirpal, 885-860 B.C. 3. Dagon, from an Assyrian bas-relief. 4. Female demon, from a Mesopotamian clay relief. 5. Dragon of Babel, from a tile relief, the Ishtar Gate, Babylon, 6th century B.C. 6. The goddess Tiamat, from a relief carving at the Temple of Enurta at Nimrud, Assyria.

    Plate 4. ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST. 1. Humanized ox, from an inlay on the soundboard of a harp, Ur, ca. 2600 B.C. 2. Winged lion with human head, Hittite bas-relief, Carchemish. 3. Head with ox horns, Persia, 2nd millennium B.C. 4. Scorpion-archer, symbol of the god Ishkhara,

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