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Il Bello e le bestie - Metamorfosi, artifici e ibridi dal mito all'immaginario scientifico
The Beautiful and the animals - Metamorphoses, subtleties and hybrids of the myth in the scientific imagination
From december 11 2004 to may 8 2005
Ancient art
Contemporary art
Some one hundred works, from symbolism to contemporary art, confront us with an ambiguous universe of hybrids generated by the encounter between animals and humans: creatures linked to mythology or born from the subconscience, monsters that have inhabited the collective imagination for centuries.