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Blemmyes from Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)

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Encyclopedia of the Marvelous, the Monstrous, and the Grotesque[1] was a reference work of the grotesque in natural history by British scholar Ian Mccormick. Below are some wikifications of Mccormick's page.

Natural history as category of the grotesque[2]

See also Ambroise Paré, Conrad Gessner, Bartolomeo Ambrosinus, Olaus Magnus, Giovanni Cavazzi da Montecuccolo. [3]

• Scythian lamb
• Mandrake from Herbarius (1485).

Hartmann Schedel

• One-eyed monster from Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).
• Blemmyae, or headless monster from Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).
• Long-eared Phanesians from Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).
• Big-lipped monster from Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).
• Sciapodes from Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).
• Goat-people (satyrs) from Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).

Albrecht Dürer

• Monstrous pig of Landseer by Albrecht Dürer (1496).

Gregor Reisch

• Human Monsters from Gregor Reisch’s Margarita Philosophica (1517).

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

• Cooking from Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s The Genius of Cooking (1569).

Ambroise Paré

• Triton and Siren from the Latin edition of Ambroise Paré’s Des Monstres et Prodiges (1582).

Edward Topsell

• Edward Topsell’s The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents (1607, 1608, 1658).

Biddenden Maids

• Biddenden Maids “Pygopagous twins”.

Johann Schenk

• Parastic ectopy[4]; Siamese twins from Johann Schenk’s Monstrorum historia memorabilis (1609).

Ulisse Aldrovandi

• Cynocephali from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Monstrorum Historia (1642).
• Goose-headed Man from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Monstrorum Historia (1642).

John Bulwer

• Hairy Man from John Bulwer’s Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transformed: or the Artificial Changling (1653).

John Bulwer (bap. 1606, d. 1656), was a British medical practitioner and writer on deafness and on gesture.

Fortunius Licetus

• 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).
• Pope-ass and other monsters from Fortunio Liceti’s De Monstrorum causis natura (1665).

Anne-Claude-Philippe

• Bear-headed Roman Senator (Anne-Claude-Philippe, Conte de Caylus, Recueil d’antiquites, 1665)

James Parsons

• Sneering Woman[5] (James Parsons, Crounian Lectures on Muscular Motion, 1745).

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

• Black Albino Child (Georges Buffon, L’histoire de l’homme, 1749)

Laurent Natter

• Chimera (Laurent Natter, Traite de la Methode Antique, 1754).

Anonymous

• Miniature Count Josef Boruwlaski with his wife Islina and their baby.(18th century).

Daniel Lambert

• Large Man Daniel Lambert. (18th century).

William Dent

• The Cutter Cut Up (William Dent, 1790).

Johann Kaspar Lavater

• Calculating Facial Disproportion ( Johann Kaspar Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, 1792).
• Birthmarks (J.C. Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, 1792).
• Rage (J.C. Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, 1792).

Baynes

• The Siamese Brothers (T. M. Baynes, 19th century).

Nicolas-Francois Regnault

• Double Child (Nicolas-Francois Regnault (French, 1746-1810), Descriptions des principales monstruosites, 1808).
• Monstrous child with multiple sensory organs, Descriptions des principales monstruosites, 1808).

Nicolas-Francois Regnault (French, 1746-1810)

Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert

• Tumor (Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert, Clinique de l’Hopital Saint-Louis, 1833)
• Lepra Nigrans (Jean Louis Alibert, Clinique de l’Hopital Saint-Louis, 1833)

George Cruickshank

• The Cholick (George Cruickshank, 1835).

T.Mclean

• The Body Politic or the March of the Intellect (T.Mclean, 1836).

20th century

• Electric Kingdom ‘Postmodern Arcimboldo’. Club Flyer, 13 March 1999. by André Martins de Barros