Creatures of Myth with Julia Perratorre and Joanne Pillsbury
Summary
Host Matthew Gabriel interviews curators Julia Peratore and Joanne Pillsbury about the "Creatures of Myth" exhibition at The Cloisters. They discuss how hybrid beings in medieval European and ancient Andean art reflect a universal human impulse to combine animal traits for symbolic power. The conversation explores the materiality of these objects, the challenge of interpreting cultures without surviving texts, and how comparing these traditions reshapes scholarly perspectives on the Middle Ages.
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