The Grotesque in Church Art
by T. Tindall Wildridge
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wildridge, T. Tindall (Thomas Tindall)
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- N: Fine Arts
- Subject
- Grotesque
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 39264
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39264
- Release Date
- March 25, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE GROTESQUE IN CHURCH ART.
- 2.Preface.
- 3.Introduction.
- 4.Definitions of the Grotesque.
- 5.The Carvers.
- 6.The Artistic Quality of Church Grotesques.
- 7.Gothic Ornaments not Didactic.
- 8.Ingrained Paganism.
- 9.Mythic Origin of Church Carvings.
- 10.Hell’s Mouth.
- 11.Satanic Representations.
- 12.The Devil and the Vices.
- 13.Ale and the Ale-wife.
- 14.Satires without Satan.
- 15.Scriptural Illustrations.
- 16.Masks and Faces.
- 17.The Domestic and Popular.
- 18.The Pig and other Animal Musicians.
- 19.Compound Forms.
- 20.Non-descripts.
- 21.Rebuses.
- 22.Trinities.
- 23.The Fox in Church Art.
- 24.Situations of the Grotesque Ornament in Church Art.
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