Customer Reviews

Gargoyles and Medieval Monsters Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Books)

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Dozens of mythical animals rendered by artists such as Dürer and da Vinci appear in this remarkable collection. Black-and-white illustrations include 45 finely detailed, skillfully adapted images of dragons, winged dogs, demons, lions, griffins, a bull, unicorn, eagle, and various other grotesques from The Book of Kells, medieval architecture, other sources.

If you are looking for a book with beautiful picturs of medievel monsers this is a great book for you!!! no color or facts on the monster but who cares there best picturs I have seen!!!

This is a good coloring book for any age, it has a lot of detail so it works with pencils, crayons, and I use paints with it. Plus it is good for males, too.

I love gargoyles, and thought this coloring book would be great to trace for making stained glass pictures.
When I received the book, there is a word or two at the bottom of each picture telling where the creature came from...a large Church in France, the Book of Kells, etc.

Not only do you enjoy coloring the pages, you learn a little history too.

While the drawings are well rendered, I was somewhat disappointed--as I had expected these creatures to be depicted as involved in some kind of scene where they're doing something. Instead, each creature is simply there on the page with no background or foreground--generally by itself--doing nothing more than perhaps roaring. Information is given as to where the original artwork can be located, such as a cathedral or castle entrance.

I had expected the creatures to be fighting each other, battling a knight, flying over a castle and doing other exciting things.

I think these could be colored by a person of any age-- they are large and well drawn and a child who has a great interest in gargoyles and dragons would probably like this.

Bought this item for a younger cousin, almost ended up keeping it self cause of the great drawings! Good quality and really nice drawings. Pål

This book gives you a look at what people from the dark ages thought went bump in the night. It offers some great works from the masters and student love it. This work well for any October unit and harry potter related lesson plans.

This is a great idea book,I do glass painting,polymer clay and this is a great book for ideas and mixing parts:)..B.W.

if u r looking for a good ref book on monsters, this isn't what u want. this is a COLORING BOOK. Unless u have a braty little kid who insists on coloring pictures of this sort of thing, i wouldn't buy it. Even though it says all ages, i wouldn't get it for anyone older than three. The books don't really have enough detail.