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Identifier: grotesqueinchurc00wild (find matches)
Title: The grotesque in church art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Wildridge, Thomas Tindall
Subjects: Grotesque Christian art and symbolism Church decoration and ornament
Publisher: London, W. Andrews & co.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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l and popular idea.He was not originally considered the son of Venus, whom hepreceded in birth. It is scarcely too much to say that hepersonified the love of a Supreme Unknown for creation ;and hence the assumption by Love of the character of adeliverer. There are other shell deities in mythology. Venus hadher shell, and her Northern co-type, Frigga, the wife of theNorthern sun-god, Odin, rode in a shell chariot. The earliest of our examples is the most serious and 54 THE GROTESQUE IN CHURCH ART. precise. The Dragon is a very bilious and repulsive reptile,while the child form, thrice repeated in the same carving, hasgrace and originality. This is from Lincoln Minster. The next is also on a misericorde, and is in ManchesterCathedral. Here the shell is different in position, beingupright. The Child in this has long hair. The third example is from a misericorde at BeverleyMinster, the series at which place shews strong evidence ofhaving been executed from the same set of designs as those
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DRAGON AND CHILD, BEVBKLBY MINSTER. of Manchester Cathedral, and were carved some twelve yearslater. Many of the subjects are identically the same, but inthis case it will be seen how a meaning may be lost by acarvers misapprehension. The shell would not be recogniz-able without comparison with the other instances, and the1 )ragon has become two. The head of the Child in thiscarving appears to be in a close hood, or Puritan infantile cap,which, as the foundling cap, survived into this century.In all the three carvings, the Dragons are of the two-leered &£>

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  • bookyear:1899
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Wildridge__Thomas_Tindall
  • booksubject:Grotesque
  • booksubject:Christian_art_and_symbolism
  • booksubject:Church_decoration_and_ornament
  • bookpublisher:London__W__Andrews___co_
  • bookcontributor:PIMS___University_of_Toronto
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  • bookleafnumber:68
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