bestiary

This is a book about a painful transition, about the loss of an ancient innocence, of a time when humans still spoke with animals and lived in harmony with nature

The dealers offer this type under the name “Ararat carpets” and claim that the weavers depicted the animals emerging from Noah’s Ark

Beneath each scene of the Creation and the episodes of first men’s story, are four quadrilobe panels with four grotesque creatures, on each of the twice ten pillars