The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
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The post showcases Charles Le Brun's 18th-century drawings of human-animal hybrids, sparking discussion on the artist's intentions and the broader implications of such depictions, including historical experiments with human-animal hybridization.
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