Giovanni Andrea Maglioli, Sea Monster with a Water Fowl in its Mouth, 1580-1610, engraving on paper, 7 1/16 in. x 10 3/8 in. ( cm. x cm.), Maglioli's monsters impress rather than horrify the viewer. In scores of seagoing composite beasts, the artist combined upper bodies of humans, goats, bulls, lions, and even an elephant with the tails of dolphins. In this print, Maglioli's dog-headed hippocamp (fish-tailed horse) grasps a luckless duck in its and foliage sprout from the monster's equine forequarters and serpentine decorative invention of this startling beast exem
Giovanni Andrea Maglioli, Sea Monster with a Water Fowl in its Mouth, 1580-1610, engraving on paper, 7 1/16 in. x 10 3/8 in. ( cm. x cm.), Maglioli's monsters impress rather than horrify the viewer. In scores of seagoing composite beasts, the artist combined upper bodies of humans, goats, bulls, lions, and even an elephant with the tails of dolphins. In this print, Maglioli's dog-headed hippocamp (fish-tailed horse) grasps a luckless duck in its and foliage sprout from the monster's equine forequarters and serpentine decorative invention of this startling beast exemplifies the artistic freedom of fantasy and imagination discussed by the ancient Roman poet Horace in his Ars Poetica (ca. 18 ): 'Imagine a painter who wanted to combine a horse's neck with a human head, and then clothe a miscellaneous collection of limbs with various kinds of feathers, so that what started out at the top as a beautiful woman ended in a hideously ugly Painters and poets have always enjoyed equal right to venture on what they will.'
Size: 6000px × 4108px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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