# Hugo Fouilloy: Bestiary [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1251-1300 - Technique: Manuscript \(MS. Ludwig XV 4\), 233 x 164 mm ## Commentary Hugo Fouilloy: Bestiary c. 1280 Manuscript \(MS. Ludwig XV 4\), 233 x 164 mm J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles The Frenchman Hugo of Fouilloy was active in the middle of the twelfth century. In his Bestiary, he created a series of images depicting monstrous creatures, half man, half beast. There are headless creatures with eyes set in their shoulders and faces growing out of their chests, followed by creatures with gigantic tusks protruding from their bodies. ## Related artworks - [A History of Western Saints]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: De Interpretazione]() - [Aristotle: Works]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Belleville Breviary]() - [Bible Historiale]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()