Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures: 1,087 Renderings from Historic Sources (Dover Pictorial Archive)

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I got this for my friend for his birthday because it was on his wishlist. He brought it with when he came to visit the other day. It's not what we expected. He was thinking it was something more like an alternative Monster Manual ala D&D, and so did I. Mostly illustrations of various 'legendary' creatures from various cultures of this reality along with a name, not even a description of the creature or what it does according to legend (but I could be wrong about that since I didn't sit down and really read it before he left). Still, great quality book and nice illustrations.

This is an incredible source of inspiring imagery, coming from someone who frequently experiences “artist’s block”. It is also very beneficial that they included brief descriptions of all the images and where they originate from. It’s beautiful. I absolutely love it.

Have double the pages, feature lots of interesting renderings, and is cheaper than the newer books. Drawback would be since these are 40 years old books, the pages are a bit yellowish. edited: -1 There are lots of editing errors, showing wrong number linked to the wrong pictures. Some are obvious like the butterfly man. Also lots of reference don't show date, and featuring pages may skip around like you're in Europe then jump to Latin America for a few pages, then go to Muslim and Africa, the oragizing is erratic. There is lack of medieval European wild men, cyclops and alike despite lots of bipeds are featured. Also near modern art is sometimes featured, a 1981 book featuring 1944 drawing, the gap's less than 40 years that modern we'd have Dungeons and dragons as history art! Not really historic for those engravings, would rather get more obscure things.

It's a book of illustrations of mythical beasts. Coffee table viewing at its' finest! A unique conversation piece.

This book is great! Amazing creatures of all kinds from all over the globe and throughout history. I love to draw in ink and this book is a great reference tool. And thanks for the speedy delivery!

Awesome visuals taken from historic artworks!

Fantastic! Stimulating, too, for we artists and illustrators.

Esperaba más imaginación, con más imágenes de más culturas del mundo y de épocas pasadas gracias Amazon 🙏

The images collection would have been very interesting if It wasn't for the very poor printing quality and low resolution. Ok it's not an expensive edition but I was quite disappointed

I used this book as reference and inspiration for my sculpture and found it invaluable

eu amei muito, chegou super rápido também

この本と Big Book of Dragons, Monsters, and Other Mythical Creatures は、想像上の生き物という同じコンセプトですが こちらの方が画像数が多く、取り上げられている範囲も広いです。 例えば、ピカソやミロ、ボッシュやデューラー、北斎の作品まで収録されています。 が、表紙にRenderingsと断ってあるように、オリジナルとはかなり違ったものになってはいます。 北斎にしても毛筆や版画の味わいは消えてしまい、その分迫力も半減しているのが残念。 でも芸術作品ではなく、網羅的なリストと割り切れば 一冊でこれだけの画像を見ることができるのはかなりありがたいです。 （個人的にはラテンアメリカの仮面が気に入っています） パラパラ眺めるには絶好の本ですが ページの下にそれぞれの出典が記されているだけで その生き物がどういった意味を持つのかといった説明はないので 詳しく知りたい人は自分で調べる必要があるかも。 私は絵だけでも飽きないですが。