The Green Man in New York City
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Publisher: Green October LLC
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 0976070405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Green Man is a sculpted image appearing in Western architecture as early as the First Century AD and finding wide use in Romanesque and Gothic churches. The Green Man originates as a pagan forest archetype embodying growth, decay, and resurrection/rebirth. This book, with 111 photographs, documents the diversity of the Green Man representations as they appear on late 19th Century buildings in New York City