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Monsters have been present in the life of mankind since its origins. The term "monster" was used to designate individuals with congenital diseases, which were recorded in their bodily diversities from Greco-Roman antiquity through the Middle Ages and the Modern Age. Teratology, a medical discipline of the 17th century, literally means, by its etymology, "the science of monsters". This series of artworks is inspired by the imagery of the treatise "Des monstres et prodige" by the French surgeon Ambroise Paré, who introduced an important distinction between these creatures: on the one hand there were prodigies, "things contrary to the order of nature, as when a woman gives birth to a snake or a dog", and monsters, "things that seem to be outside the order of nature".