The Last Judgement: The Damned in Hell





















Artist unknown, dated 1500.

The Inferno
Here is an impressive engraving of Hell by an unknown Italian artist dating from 1480 - 1500.

Monsters Of The Renaissance
Click on the image on the left to access the gallery. It's in French but easy enough to navigate, just click the text on the left to access a weird selection of old interpretations of monsters sometimes based on real deformed people and some imagined.

La Chasse Infernal





















Here is an intriguing illustration of demons fire and brimstone used as the cover to some old sheet music. For any curious musicians out there here is a link to the sheet music the cover is from.

Magical World Of Monsters
More colorful and highly stylized monsters in this gallery. These are interpretations of the more common fantastic beasts such as the Basilisk, Hydra, Chimera, Griffin, Cerebus, Centuar, Dragon, Kraken and Medusa.

Robert Dale Anderson
One of the striking aspects of these drawings is the lack of distinct facial characteristics on those that populate the imagery. Everything is grotesquely vague, making the visions appear all the more like a passing nightmare.

Artist found thanks to Armchair Aquarium Annex.