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The Bestiary: extraordinary compilation where the struggle between observation and vision is constantly played out. By the time of the early Enlightenment, the Bestiary, like its younger relative the Encyclopedia, participates in the totalizing intent of the catalogue of the world’s wonders. Empirical observation banishes from these increasingly imposing and beautiful tomes creatures that have not been observed in their environment. So the unicorn, the vouivre, the dragon and all their relations take refuge in the annals of folklore, until the fantastic and surrealism release them once more in the triumph of imagination.
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