| Unusual, realistic images of people with animal physiognomy, which were known already from medieval illuminated manuscripts as bestiaries and drolleries, are present in the Renaissance as well. With translations of Greek texts (in 1497, Aldus published a translation of pseudo-Aristotle in Venice), which devote whole chapters to animal physiognomy, describing human properties in terms of relations of parts of a human body to those of the animal, and together with some new theoretical books of the Renaissance, physiognomy as a science was completely revived. This picture is most probably based on drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. |
 "Grotesque Old Woman")
