Monsters

Le Polype difforme flottait sur les rivages, sorte de cyclope souriant et hideux (The deformed polyp floated on the shores, a sort of smiling and hideous Cyclops)

Odilon Redon • 1883

Disparate de miedo (Folly of Fear)

Francisco Goya • in or after 1816

Zeven monsters

Aarts, Johannes Josephus • 1881

Monster Caryatid

late 500s

Monster-Headed Male Deity with Consort

10th–11th century(?)

Stamp seal (scaraboid) with monster

9th–7th century BCE

Fishermen Catching a Sea Monster

Adamo Scultori (Italian, c. 1530-1587) after Giulio Romano (Italian, c. 1499-1546) • 1560/70

Panel of Ornament with Two Naked Children on Monstrous Beasts

Peregrino da Cesena • c. 1505/1520

Twee mannen en een monster in een werkkamer

Aarts, Johannes Josephus • 1881

Angelica Bound and about to be Devoured by the Sea Monster

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Italian, 1727-1804 • after 1757

Bigorne

anonymous • first quarter 17th century

Jonah Swallowed

280–90 CE

The Demon Printer

Félix-Hilaire Buhot • 1878

Flying Monster

Robert Caney • 1552

Squatting Monster with Human Head and Wings

Virgilius Solis, the Elder (German, 1514-1562) or Baccio del Bianco (Italian, 1604-1656) • n.d.

Triton Combats Sea Monster

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 • 1800s

Sea monster

Workshop of Severo Calzetta da Ravenna • ca. 1500–1510

A woman and a man standing on a balcony looking up at a flying monster in the sky

José Guadalupe Posada • ca. 1880–1910 (a later impression)

Neptune on a Sea Monster

Severo da Ravenna • c. 1500/1509

Behemoth and Leviathan

William Blake • 1825

Ruiter op een olifantachtig monster

anonymous • first quarter 17th century

Fuwa Bansaku en het monster

Yoshitoshi, Tsukioka • third quarter 19th century

Vignet met bebaard monster voor de Mercure de France

Aarts, Johannes Josephus • 1900

Circe Punishing Glaucus by transforming Scylla into a Monster

Neer, Eglon van der • fourth quarter 17th century

Jealous Monster

John Hamilton Mortimer • 1778

Ten-Headed Monster Preying on Two Nude Bodies [reverse]

Pierre Aury • 1672

Earth Monster (Tlaltecuhtli)

15th–early 16th century

Vrouw met monster

Aarts, Johannes Josephus • 1881

Monster met schaal

Aarts, Johannes Josephus • 1881

Drie monsters

anonymous • first quarter 17th century

Geblinddoekte vrouw en monster

Lauweriks, Mathieu • 1894

Triton zittend op een monster onderaan

anonymous • third quarter 17th century

The Abduction on a Unicorn

Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) • 1516

Kuwana: The Story of the Sailor Tokuzō

1833

Le Sphynx...mon regard que rien ne peut devier, demeure tendu a travers les choses sur un horizon inaccessible. La Chimere: Moi,Je suis legere et joyeuse (The Sphinx: "My gaze, which nothing can deflect, passes through the things and remains fixed on an inaccessible horizon." The Chimera: "I am weightless and joyful")

Odilon Redon • 1889

Enrag'd Monster

John Hamilton Mortimer • 1778

Monster met vluchtende mensen

Aarts, Johannes Josephus • 1881

Monster Face: Door Ring Holder (Pushou)

500s

The Sea Monster

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 • 1500s

Knife with Monster Head with Open Mouth

Viking • 1100

Allegorisch vijfkoppige monster