Jurgis Baltrušaitis , Il medioevo fantastico. Antichità ed esotismi nell’arte gotica, 1993

Origins and transformations – from the Far East to Gothic art and Bosch – of what was called the “monstrous”, the “macabre”, the “fantastic”, the “demonic”. A capital work of history of images – and therefore not only of history of art, but of civilization.