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Many scientists have criticized the plausibility of cryptids due to lack of physical evidence, [7] likely misidentifications [8] and misinterpretation of stories from folklore. [9] While biologists regularly identify new species following established scientific methodology , cryptozoologists focus on entities mentioned in the folklore record ...
It depicts a European girl wearing "exotic dress", an "oriental turban", and what appears to be a very large pearl as an earring. [1] The subject of the painting is unknown, with it being possible either that she was a real model, or that Vermeer created a more generalised and mysterious woman, perhaps representing a Sibyl or biblical figure. [4]
Legendary creatures from Europe, supernatural animal or paranormal entities, generally hybrids, sometimes part human (such as sirens), whose existence has not or cannot be proven. They are described in folklore (including myths and legends), but also may be featured in historical accounts before modernity
Pages in category "Medieval European legendary creatures" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Painting by John Bauer of two trolls with a human child they have raised. In one Swedish tale, the human mother is advised to brutalize the changeling (bortbyting) so the trolls will return her son. Still, she refuses, unable to mistreat an innocent child despite knowing its nature.
Like many other important pieces of European art, it became a part of Hermann Göring's personal collection, Göring later traded the painting with Gustav Rochlitz for a Florentine Tondo. In 1946, Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers resurfaced and was exhibited in Paris as one of the "French masterpieces found in Germany".
Whereas Matisse had drawn upon a long tradition of European painting—from Giorgione, Poussin, and Watteau to Ingres, Cézanne, and Gauguin—to create a modern version of a pastoral paradise in Le bonheur de vivre, Picasso had turned to an alien tradition of primitive art to create in Les Demoiselles a netherworld of strange gods and violent ...
Gypsy Girl from Zebegény: Private collection [34] 41 × 62 cm Oil on canvas [34] One of two paintings of the same girl who posed for Sher-Gil in old clothes, completed in the summer of 1932 in Zebegény. [7] In green and red, it depicts a gypsy girl holding a basket of fruit. [9] 1932: Girls in conversation: Private collection [34] 82 × 53 cm ...