A good set of medieval images can be found at bestiary.ca. 

Bronzino’s allegory of Venus and Cupid is available at Wikimedia Commons.

Sources we mention

 

Dante, Inferno.

Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene.

Edward Topsell, A Historie of Foure Footed Beasts. London, 1658 (first edition was 1607).

#3- Manticore or Man-Tiger?

Our first look at a truly fantastical hybrid creature as it moves from bestiary to natural history to art and literature.