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Author: A. Raguenet
Publisher:
Published: 2010-06-17
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780486470160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnter a mysterious world of fantasy, beauty, and horror with this historic collection of architectural details from centuries-old structures — gargoyles, busts, cartouches, pedestals, more. Bonus CD-ROM includes all images from the book.
Author: Alex Woodcock
Publisher: Shire Publications
Published: 2011-05-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780747808312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGargoyles are an architectural feature designed to throw rainwater clear of the walls of a building. Widely used on medieval churches, these water spouts were often richly decorated, and fashioned as serpents' heads and other fanciful shapes. Today, the term gargoyle is also popularly applied to any carved decorative head or creature high up on a building and this book is an exploration of all of these enchanting features. Written by an academic and stonecarver, it is the perfect introduction to this fascinating subject. Gargoyles aims to provide a concise introduction to the stone carvings often found on religious and secular buildings in Britain from the medieval period to the modern. It will explore the typical imagery, some of the theories put forward to explain them, as well as consider the carvings within their architectural and social contexts. Incorporating recent and current research, the book will nevertheless be accessible to the general reader.
Author: Stephen King
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Published: 2014-12
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ISBN-13: 9781627152976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gary R. Varner
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2007-04-10
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1435711424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe symbols and strange images that we find in our cemeteries, religious structures, banks and in our parks are the same symbols that have been part of the framework of the human psyche for thousands of years. While contemporary man may think that they are simply decorative manifestations of a by-gone era, they represent the fears, dreams, ideas, beliefs and struggles that humankind has endured since we began to walk upright. This book surveys many of these icons and will give a meaning for them both in the context of ancient history and folklore as well as a meaning that is suitable for our contemporary times. Illustrated with dozens of photographs, this book will be of interest to anyone interested in historic preservation, ancient symbolism, the Green Man and the universal application of imagery. Gary R. Varner has written numerous books on ancient traditions, folklore, the environment and contemporary issues. He is a member of the American Folklore Society and the Foundation for Mythological Studies.
Author: Anthony Di Renzo
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780809320301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDi Renzo compares the bizarre comedy in O'Connor's stories and novels to that of medieval narrative, art, folklore, and drama. Noting a strong kinship between her characters and the grotesqueries that adorn the margins of illuminated manuscripts and the facades of European cathedrals, he argues that O'Connor's Gothicism brings her tales closer in spirit to the English mystery cycles and the leering gargoyles of medieval architecture than to the Gothic fiction of Poe and Hawthorne. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Wendy True Gasch
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Published: 2016-08-31
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ISBN-13: 9780974529967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ronald Sheridan
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780821206447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John C. Tibbetts
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2021-10-18
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1476643970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a critical study of the great British man of letters G.K. Chesterton, devoted to the novels, stories and essays that explore the darker fringes of his wild imagination. "Everything is different in the dark," wrote Chesterton; "perhaps you don't know how terrible a truth that is." Chesterton's use of the theme of "gargoyles" provides the thematic structure of the book. It covers the detective stories of Father Brown and others, the locked rooms and miracle crimes in his writing, his status as a science fiction writer, and the riddles and paradoxes of three works--Job, The Man Who Was Thursday, and the play The Surprise. This volume also includes an interlude about Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges and a robust appendix including interviews about the formation of Ignatius Press's Collected Chesterton.
Author: Shawn Cipa
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
Published: 2009-02-07
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781565233294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo complete projects, fascinating history and myth, and 26 additional full page patterns for creating functional and decorative gargoyles from wood. Learn to carve a traditional water-spouting gargoyle and classic grotesque with step-by-step instructions. Includes 10 additional patterns for mythical creatures incorporated into architectural elements, like a working doorknocker.
Author: Andrew Davidson
Publisher: Random House Canada
Published: 2009-06-23
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 0307371638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic sculptress on the lam from the psych ward upstairs, who insists that she knows him – that she has known him, in fact, for seven hundred years. She remembers vividly when they met, in another hospital ward at a convent in medieval Germany, when she was a nun and he was a wounded mercenary left to die. If he has forgotten this, he is not to worry: she will prove it to him. And so Marianne Engel begins to tell him their story, carving away his disbelief and slowly drawing him into the orbit and power of a word he'd never uttered: love.
