Grotesque architecture ... A new edition
Author: William WRIGHTE (Architect)
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Published: 1802
Total Pages: 74
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Author: William WRIGHTE (Architect)
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Published: 1802
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Wrighte
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2023-07-10
Total Pages: 47
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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: Luke Morgan
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0812247558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan develops a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, arguing that the monster was a key figure in Renaissance culture and that the incorporation of the monstrous into gardens was not incidental but an essential feature.
Author: William Wrighte
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Published: 1815
Total Pages: 62
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. Raguenet
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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: 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: Lester Burbank Bridaham
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-01-09
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0486136531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmid the soaring grandeur of arches and spires lurks a more down-to-earth architectural flourish: the grinning head of a gargoyle. Singly and clustered, these intriguing creatures form as distinctive an element of Gothic architecture as the flying buttress. Nowhere are they more prominent than along the walls of French cathedrals, and this magnificently illustrated volume prowls the ramparts of those medieval buildings to discover hundreds of authentic gargoyle carvings. According to tradition, the gargoyles were posted as sentries, to ward off malevolent spirits and to remind parishioners of the evil beyond the church doors. Author Lester Burbank Bridaham takes a more optimistic view. Noting the stone guardians' whimsical nature, he discusses the artisanal ingenuity involved in their creation. He also points out how they represented a rare sense of freedom in the Middle Ages, in terms of public satire and unbridled artistic enthusiasm. As this book reveals, the timeless appeal of the gargoyle—whether symbolic, spiritual, decorative, or fanciful—continues to captivate the imagination.
Author: William Wrighte
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Published: 1790
Total Pages: 86
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Published: 1787
Total Pages: 174
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