The Chimera

Edward Okuń (1872-1945): 'Chimera', 1905
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Odilon Redon: 'Chimera'
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The Chimera was, according to Greek mythology, a monstrous
fire-breathing female creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed
of the parts of multiple animals: upon the body of a lioness with
a tail that ended in a snake's head, the head of a goat arose on her
back at the center of her spine. The Chimera was one of the offspring
of Typhon and Echidna and a sibling of such monsters as Cerberus
and the Lernaean Hydra. The term chimera has also come to describe
any mythical animal with parts taken from various animals and,
more generally, an impossible fantasy

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The Chimera on a red-figure Apulian plate, ca. 350–340 BC
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Gustave Moreau (1826-1898): 'The Chimera'

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The so called "'Chimera of Arezzo" is an Etruscan bronze
statue of the mythological monster chimera, on display
in the Archaeological museum in Florence, Italy
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'Bellerophon fighting the Chimera'
by Walter Crane, 1895

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Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929):

'Shepherd and the Chimera'

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Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929):
'Chimera'
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Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929):
'Poet and Chimera'
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Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929):
'Boy and Chimera', 1910
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Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929):
'Chimera'
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Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929):
'Interior with a Chimera'
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Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929):
'Chimera'
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Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929):
'Chimera'
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Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929):
'Chimera'
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Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929):
'Shepherd and the Chimera' - 'Guarding the Chimera
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Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640):
'Bellerophonon Pegasus Slaying the Chimaera'
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