Editing Manticore (section)

== Fine art ==
[[File:Kilpeck church stone carvings - geograph.org.uk - 875590.jpg|thumb|right|Manticore at the [[Church of St Mary and St David, Kilpeck]], [[Herefordshire]] (12th century)]]
The heraldic manticore influenced some [[Mannerism|Mannerist]] representations of the sin of Fraud, conceived as a monstrous [[chimera (mythology)|chimera]] with a beautiful woman's face – for example, in [[Bronzino]]'s allegory ''[[Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time]]'' ([[National Gallery]], London),<ref>{{cite journal |first=John F. |last=Moffitt |title=An Exemplary Humanist Hybrid: Vasari's "Fraude" with Reference to Bronzino's "Sphinx" |journal=Renaissance Quarterly |volume=49 |issue=2 |year=1996 |pages=303–333 |doi=10.2307/2863160|jstor=2863160 |s2cid=192984544 }} traces the chimeric image of Fraud backwards from Bronzino.</ref> and more commonly in the decorative schemes called {{lang|it|[[grotteschi]]}} (grotesque). From here it passed by way of [[Cesare Ripa]]'s ''Iconologia'' into the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French conception of a [[sphinx]].