When we think of monsters today, we perhaps think of digitally rendered behemoths in the latest Hollywood summer movie. Or perhaps of real-life monsters lurking in the oceans - and we know there are real monsters down there.
Yet there's been a tradition of depicting monsters in art, long before movies were invented. For example, an early 'trope' involved lurid depictions of hell - Christian or otherwise - with all the nasty creatures therein...
