Dr Ian McCormickBeware Maritime Monsters !
#grotesque
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"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
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 ArchiveAlberich, 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
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 GlasgowLove this grotesque on William Leiper's 1886 Gothic style on Hyndland Road in the West End of Glasgow.
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #sculpture #grotesque
Raffaello Coda da Rimini, grotesque detail, Volta Pinta, Palazzo
Comunale, Assisi, Italy, 1556.
#grotesque #satire #parody #transgression
"... 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
"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
"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
