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Art and Animals

Blue Tiger, Northumberland Bestiary, 1250–60, The J. Paul Getty Museum’s Open Content Program Manticore, 13th century, Oxford Bodleian Library, Wikimedia Commons Griffin from Book of Flowers, 1460, (The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands

Some of the earliest cave paintings depict animals, as hunters and prey. Domestic animals came later. During the Middle Ages, artists who knew their subjects only by hearsay, let their imaginations run wild …