Giovanni Battista Nazari





















This page contains the woodcuts from Nazari's allegorical book "Three Dreams on Metallic Transmutation". There's only a small handful of works on display there but the images are incredibly strange. One showing a circle of chicken like creatures wearing masks dancing around a large mule, another image shows a hydra like creature or instrument with human heads attached from over a dozen places. Then there is the creature above, many strange animals.

An extended summary of the book they are illustrations from can be read here.

Woodcuts found thanks to BibliOdyssey

Karel Thole
This fantasy/horror/science fiction book illustrator meshed surrealism and the fantastic in his paintings, creating many wild and unusual pictures in doing so. There is a great online gallery with the collected covers Thole made for the science fiction magazine "Urania". Over one thousand works can be seen in the gallery which can be viewed here. I've chosen some of my favorite works that you can click on below.
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And don't miss the great collection of horror covers by Thole posted over at "The Groovy Age Of Horror".