bestiaries

On the walls you may have noticed the Ane qui vielle, -- the ass playing the lyre; and on all the old churches you can see "bestiaries," as they were called, of fabulous animals, symbolic or not; but the symbolism is as simple as the realism of the oxen at Laon.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

There are Books of Hours painted on vellum, intricate hymnals, Psalters, antiphonals, breviaries, bestiaries, herbals, and luminous Bibles for monasteries and kings.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

With "Fleurs d'exces" Flowers of excess, she has gone further to create unique works that recall the jeweled obsessions of times past, such as the mechanical nightingale of Hans Christian Andersen's children's tale, Faberge eggs, and the fabulous bestiaries of animals real and mythic.

Evelyne Politanoff: Victoire de Castellane and Her Fabulous "Fleurs d'exces" Evelyne Politanoff 2011

With "Fleurs d'exces" Flowers of excess, she has gone further to create unique works that recall the jeweled obsessions of times past, such as the mechanical nightingale of Hans Christian Andersen's children's tale, Faberge eggs, and the fabulous bestiaries of animals real and mythic.

Evelyne Politanoff: Victoire de Castellane and Her Fabulous "Fleurs d'exces" Evelyne Politanoff 2011

There are Books of Hours painted on vellum, intricate hymnals, Psalters, antiphonals, breviaries, bestiaries, herbals, and luminous Bibles for monasteries and kings.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

A couple of weeks ago, while reading a paper* on snail illustrations in old publications, I noticed a citation to a 2001 book called Beasts and bestiaries.

Archive 2009-09-01 AYDIN 2009

Alongside bestiaries, prayer books and studies of humanist thought, there are plenty of "how tos" for the budding monarch, including how to be a good king check out Solomon, David, Caesar and Alexander and how to stay hygienic and healthy.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

A couple of weeks ago, while reading a paper* on snail illustrations in old publications, I noticed a citation to a 2001 book called Beasts and bestiaries.

Beasts and Bestiaries: a book about how they used to illustrate animals AYDIN 2009

But it also boasted the unities of time, place, and action; it aspired to at least partial coherence; it had some shape, some pattern, with its echelons, its bestiaries.

Martin Amis's 'The Pregnant Widow' Is A 'Strange, Sparkling Novel' (New York Review) 2010

The bestiaries and the shady streams of the place will not go unnoticed by EnèIoh who is of the place.

Ioh 2010