A bestiary of the strange · 89 verified works
Dragons, Monsters & Devils in Public Domain Art
A compact bestiary drawn from centuries of fear, satire, faith, and fantasy. Use it to trace how artists gave form to danger—or as an image bank for posters, games, stories, and strange new composites.
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- Fantasy and game-world references
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- Creature-design moodboards
- Folklore and iconography research
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Saint Christopher and the Infant Christ
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The Passion: Christ Bearing the Cross
The Temptation of Christ by the Devil
Passion of Jesus Christ: The Descent into Limbo
Christ Crowned with Thorns
The Passion: The Agony in the Garden
The Temptation of St. Anthony
The Passion: The Flagellation
The Passion: The Entombment
First a Pool of Water, Then a Prostitute, the Corner of a Temple, a Soldier's Face, a Chariot with Two White, Rearing Horses
It Is the Devil, Bearing Beneath His Two Wings the Seven Deadly Sins
And a Large Bird, Descending from the Sky, Hurls Itself against the Topmost Point of Her Hair
He Raises the Bronze Urn
Then There Appears a Singular Being, Having the Head of a Man on the Body of a Fish
It Is a Skull Wreathed with Roses. It Dominates a Woman's Torso of Pearly Whiteness
The Chimera with Green Eyes Turns, Bays
And All Manner of Frightful Creatures Arise
Everywhere Eyeballs are Aflame
And In the Very Disk of the Sun Shines the Face of Jesus Christ
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The Miracles of Saint James the Greater
The Passion: Christ on the Cross
Neptune Calming the Tempest That Aeolus Raised Against Aeneas's Fleet
Saint Margaret
Vase
Saint Michael
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Book of Hours (Use of Paris): Fol. 118r, Angel and Devil Fighting over a Soul
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Book of Hours (Use of Rouen): fol. 12r, Calendar Page for December
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Book of Hours (Use of Rouen): fol. 13r, The Four Evangelists
The Apocalypse: The Angel Sounding the Sixth Trumpet
The Flight into Egypt
Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel's Spear
The Passion: Christ Before Pilate
The Flight into Egypt
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