and monstrous beings

The art of Rubens is rooted in an era darkened by the long shadow of devastating wars between Protestants and Catholics

but written sources are fragmentary

—Chicago Tribune

and Kandinsky in the Dorling Kindersley ArtBook series (1999)

Don't Let the Beasties Escape This Book! pottery and monstrous beingsJulie Berry Illustrated by April Lee Young Godfrey and his family toil for the lord and lady of the castle. But when Godfrey stumbles upon an unfinished Book of Beasts, its splendid pictures of animals make him forget his chores. He invents the story of a brave knight, Sir Godfrey the Glorious, who battles a lion, tames a unicorn, defeats a griffin, conquers a bonnacon, and triumphs over a dragon. Godfrey does not realize that each time he says the