. An artist active in Switzerland fashioned this tapestry fragment, woven between 1420 and 1430. The tapestry features a furry beast with sharp teeth, talons, and scales.Credit: The Metropolitan ...
Haralambos Goumas is a man who fashions gods out of clay — a reversal of most ancient creation myths in which the gods make the men. Over the past half-century, Goumas, 67, has produced thousands of ...
From powerful fire-breathing dragons and fierce griffins, to part-human sphinxes and mermaids with mesmerising beauty, mythical creatures and beasts have long captivated the minds of human beings, ...