Gallery of the grotesque
Gallery
Altar to my demon (1986) - Joe Coleman
Jost Amman: Adam and Eve with the Tree of Knowledge as Death (1587), from Jacob Ruegg's De conceptu et generatione hominis
Skeletons fighting over a smoked herring (1891) - James Ensor
Matthies Grunewald, The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Detail from Panel from Isenheim Altarpiece), 1515
Saturn Devouring His Son (1819) - Francisco de Goya
The great red dragon and the woman clothed with the sun (c. 1800) - William Blake
(Note to readers of Thomas Harris's Red Dragon: this is the painting that serial killer Francis Dolarhyde is obsessed with--which also gives the novel its title.)
Triumph of Death, 1562, Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Inspired by:
http://www.oceanstar.com/horror/morbid_index.htm
List of Grotesque Images
Scythian Lamb
Mandrake from Herbarius (1485).
One-eyed monster from Hartman Schedel's Liber Chronicarum (1493).
Blemmyae, or headless monster from Hartman Schedel's Liber Chronicarum (1493).
Long-eared Phanesians from Hartman Schedel's Liber Chronicarum (1493).
Big-lipped monster from Hartman Schedel's Liber Chronicarum (1493).
Sciapodes from Hartman Schedel's Liber Chronicarum (1493).
Goat-people (satyrs) from Hartman Schedel's Liber Chronicarum (1493).
Monstrous pig of Landseer by Albrecht Durer (1496).
Human Monsters from Gregor Reisch's Margarita Philosophia (1517).
Cooking from Giuseppe Arcimboldo's The Genius of Cooking (1569).
Triton and Siren from the Latin edition of Ambroise Pare's Des Monstres et Prodiges (1582).
Lamia See Topsell's The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents (1607, 1608, 1658).
Biddenden Maids "Pygopagous twins".
Parastic ectopy; Siamese twins from Johann Schenk's Monstrorum historia memorabilis (1609).
Cynocephali from Ulisse Aldrovandi's Monstrorum Historia (1642).
Goose-headed Man from Ulisse Aldrovandi's Monstrorum Historia (1642).
Hairy Man from John Bulwer's Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transformed: or the Artificial Changling (1653).
More monsters (Fortunius Licetus, De Monstris, 1665).
Medusa Head Found in an Egg (Fortunius Licetus, De Monstris, 1665).
Elephant-headed man from Fortunio Liceti's De Monstris (1665).
Amorphous Monster (Fortunius Licetus, De Monstris, 1665).
Bear-headed Roman Senator (Anne-Claude-Philippe, Conte de Caylus, Recueil d'antiquites, 1665)
Pope-ass and other monsters from Fortunio Liceti's De Monstrorum causis natura (1665).
Sneering Woman (James Parsons, Crounian Lectures on Muscular Motion, 1745).
Black Albino Child (Georges Buffon, L'histoire de l'homme, 1749)
Chimera (Laurent Natter, Traite de la Methode Antique, 1754).
Miniature Count Josef Boruwlaski with his wife Islina and their baby.(18th century).
Large Man Daniel Lambert. (18th century).
The Cutter Cut Up (William Dent, 1790).
Calculating Facial Disproportion (J.C. Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, 1792).
Birthmarks (J.C. Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, 1792).
Rage (J.C. Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, 1792).
The Siamese Brothers (T. M. Baynes, 19th century).
Double Child (Nicolas-Francois Regnault, Descriptions des principales monstruosites, 1808).
Monstrous child with multiple sensory organs (Nicolas-Francois Genault, Descriptions des principales monstruosites, 1808).
Tumor (Jean Louis Alibert, Clinique de l'Hopital Saint-Louis, 1833)
Lepra Nigrans (Jean Louis Alibert, Clinique de l'Hopital Saint-Louis, 1833)
The Cholick (George Cruickshank, 1835).
The Body Politic or the March of the Intellect (T.Mclean, 1836).
The Pursuit (Grandville, Un autre monde, 1844).
Electric Kingdom 'Postmodern Arcimboldo'. Club Flyer, 13 March 1999.
--Ian McCormick, http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ian.mccormick/, accessed Mar 2004