BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS: BEASTS AND FANTASTIC CREATURES IN EARLY EUROPEAN PRINTS

Central Gallery
January 17 to March 22, 2014

Beautiful Monsters explores the representation of monstrous creatures in early European art by bringing together approximately fifty prints from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. The engravings, etchings and woodcuts assembled at the Gallery feature real and fictitious beasts and monsters in exuberant and enigmatic compositions. Handsome beasts and hideous creatures, boldly represented, vie for attention in this selection of surprisingly fantastical and strange images.