Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Medieval Lions and The Bestiaries

December 31, 2009 by pieterkat  
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15th Century illustration
Lions have long and undeniably been a part of world culture and heritage. Here, I confer an aspect of the rich and varied involvement of lions in European Medieval symbolism and literature.
In Europe, Bestiaries, or descriptions of the characteristics of animals in illustrated volumes, became popular in the Middle Ages – especially around [...]