ROMANESQUE PAINTER, German
(active 1220s in South Tyrol)

Legendary Creatures

c. 1220
Fresco
St Jacob's, Kastelaz

In the beginning of the 13th century, the expansion of intellectual horizons in Europe sparked an interest in geography and reports on miraculous happenings, fabulous creatures from the "edge of the world", which begun to populate Romanesque sculptures, book miniatures and frescoes.




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