Mural, 82 x 75 cm
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
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UNKNOWN MASTER, Catalan The Fight between David and Goliath 1123
Mural, 82 x 75 cm
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Aberdeen Bestiary, Folio 8r, Tiger, 12th century
The horseman has stolen a cub and has been pursued by the tiger. The thief can stop the tiger by a trick: he throws down a glass sphere and the tiger, seeing its own reflection, stops to nurse the sphere like a cub. She ends by losing both her revenge and her child. - Aberdeen Bestiary, Aberdeen University
Aberdeen Bestiary, Folio 55v, Phoenix, 12th century
The Bestiary appeared in its present form in England in the twelfth century, as a compilation of many earlier sources, principally the Physiologus. A great deal of its charm comes from the humour and imagination of the illustrations, painted partly for pleasure but justified as a didactic tool 'to improve the minds of ordinary people, in such a way that the soul will at least perceive physically things which it has difficulty grasping mentally: that what they have difficulty comprehending with their ears, they will perceive with their eyes' (Aberdeen MS 24, f25v). See What is a Bestiary? - University of Aberdeen.
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