# @gettymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CP3bTQRnU2A
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34229228-gettymuseum-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/0dbede9b4f.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-06-08T16:33:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

## Caption

Medieval artists, taking "seahorses" too literally since the 13th century

Other sea creatures in this illumination—a sea bull with a single horn, and even something that resembles a sea woman with fins for arms—reflect the medieval belief that every terrestrial creature had an aquatic counterpart. 

Illuminations from bestiaries, a kind of medieval encyclopedia of animals, frequently show ocean-dwellers with the upper bodies of land animals and the lower bodies of fish.
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🏷: #medievalart #seahorses #worldoceansday #arthistory #gettymuseum

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## Tags

medievalart, gettymuseum, arthistory, seahorses, worldoceansday

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