A medley of images of Ketoi
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Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Saturday, 15 August 2020
From Sea to Land - More Ketos to Dragons
#CETUS #CETOS #kETOS #Drakon #Dragon
Images of sea Monsters in Greek and Roman Art like the one above often have heads similar to those of dragons in later European Art such as this one from Galician Spain
or this image of a captured Dacian standard ?
But most of us think of dragons as being more like this ?
There are however transitional forms with the features of the water monsters of the Mediterranean and the flying fire breathers or rain bringers of Northern Eurasia.
St Margaret of Antioch emerging from a dragon which split open after swallowing her.
Carolingian cavalry lead by a rider with a dragon standard.
Images of sea Monsters in Greek and Roman Art like the one above often have heads similar to those of dragons in later European Art such as this one from Galician Spain
or this image of a captured Dacian standard ?
But most of us think of dragons as being more like this ?
There are however transitional forms with the features of the water monsters of the Mediterranean and the flying fire breathers or rain bringers of Northern Eurasia.
St Margaret of Antioch emerging from a dragon which split open after swallowing her.
Carolingian cavalry lead by a rider with a dragon standard.
and of course ST George slaying a dragon
Most of these images are post Classical but the transition of finned sea monster to winged creature shows the lingering echoes of the effects of Greek and Roman art on later Western Europe ?
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