Dr Ian McCormick7h ago
"Kilpeck is famous for the wealth of ebullient carvings left by the 11th-century masons; there are dozens of amusing, grotesque, and intricate carvings around the doors, windows, and roof line of the church. One of the finest small Norman churches in Britain." #grotesque #monstrous #stone #carving
Dr Ian McCormick13h ago
Green Man, a pagan symbol of fertility. Nave Ceiling Boss. Crowland Abbey was a monastery of the Benedictine Order in Lincolnshire. #Easter #grotesque #monstrous
Public Domain Image Archive3d ago

Alberich, illustration for Wagner’s Das Rheingold (1896) by Aubrey Beardsley, from The Savoy Magazine.

Source: National Digital Library of PolandUniversity of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/78c41a99-5346-4970-a464-67124c5df955

#hairy #grotesque #decadent-movement #human-animal-hybrid #claws #raised-arms #decadence #hybrid-figures #drawing #art #publicdomain

Dr Ian McCormick5d ago
Object: Ira/ Pigritia (Wrath and Sloth) Series: The Deadly Sins Date: 1590-1645 Print made by Jakob von der Heyden #allegory #monstrous #grotesque
This Is My Glasgow5d ago

Love this grotesque on William Leiper's 1886 Gothic style on Hyndland Road in the West End of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #sculpture #grotesque

Dr Ian McCormick6d ago
Raffaello Coda da Rimini, grotesque detail, Volta Pinta, Palazzo Comunale, Assisi, Italy, 1556. #grotesque #satire #parody #transgression
Show threadDr Ian McCormick6d ago
"... Such things do not exist and cannot exist and never have existed. Hence, it is the new taste that has caused bad judges of poor art to prevail over true artistic excellence. " --- Vitruvius, On architecture, 30 BCE #art #architecture #design #monstrous #grotesque
Show threadDr Ian McCormickMar 19
"A baroque grotesque #mascaron from the bell tower of Santa Maria Formosa church in Venezia." --- Carl Julius Salomonsen (1919) De nyeste Kunstretninger og smitsomme Sindslidelser. #Venice #grotesque #art #architecture #renaissance #Italy
Dr Ian McCormickMar 19
"a delight in the contemplation of bestial vice, and the expression of low sarcasm, which is, I believe, the most hopeless state into which the human mind can fall" --- Santa Maria Formosa, Venice. --- Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 3. #grotesque #art #architecture #renaissance #Italy
Vickie HinkleyMar 18
#GROTESQUE #TRUMP.CRIMES.against.HUMANITY

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