MINIATURIST, French
(active 1270s in north-western France)

Livre des Merveilles du Monde

1270s
Manuscript (MS Ludwig XV 4), 233 x 164 mm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

The Frenchman Hugo of Fouilloy was active in the middle of the twelfth century. In his Bestiary, he created a series of images depicting monstrous creatures, half man, half beast. There are headless creatures with eyes set in their shoulders and faces growing out of their chests, followed by creatures with gigantic tusks protruding from their bodies.