Grotesques - 1908
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Title : Grotesques - 1908
Author : Not Stated
Source : Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist
Year Published : 1908
Page Count : 8
Image Count : 9
Word Count : 1,879
File Size in MB : 3
File Type : PDF
"Who has not been startled upon visiting some old-world structure — cathedral, abbey, or monastery — by the sudden appearance of some uncanny sculptured visage leering at the visitor from some point of vantage upon the building, surprising in its apparent incongruity. This expression of the mediaeval builder’s sense of is the visible a principle which prevails throughout the whole range of nature and of art, and which we designate by the name of grotesque, a word originally derived from that peculiar form of painted..."
