In the Dutch ‘Week of the Classics’ with this year’s theme ‘To Arms’, here two classical composite creatures explaining their adventures to each other. Expressed in a thought-balloon avant-la-lettre.
The Chimera, the lion with the goat’s head and the snake tail, discusses his confrontation with the hero Bellerophon. The Theban sphinx, the winged lion with human head, presents the moment Oedipus enters the rocks while explaining the answer on the riddle.
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Collections:
Arretinum Museum, Pisa: here the woodcut is turned 90 degrees to the left:
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