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Author : A. Raguenet
Publisher :
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 38,79 MB
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780486470160
Enter 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
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780747808312
Gargoyles 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
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2014-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781627152976
Author : Gary R. Varner
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 2007-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1435711424
The 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 : Wendy True Gasch
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 2016-08-31
Category :
ISBN : 9780974529967
Author : Anthony Di Renzo
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780809320301
Di 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 : Ronald Sheridan
Publisher :
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Church architecture
ISBN : 9780821206447
Author : Shawn Cipa
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 17,81 MB
Release : 2009-02-07
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781565233294
Two 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 : Ronald Sheridan
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476643970
This 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.