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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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IMPUDENCE, BISHOPS STORTFORD,HERTFORDSHIKK. I IO THE GROTESQUE IN CHURCH ART. suggesting Falstaff in his prime, is seated with a lady amongluxurious foliage. His arm is right round his companionswaist, while his left hand dips into his capacious and apparently-well-lined pouch, or gipciere. He has been styled a merchant.He is manifestly making a bargain. The lady is evidently adaughter of the hireling (kintdo /), and is crying, Give,give. In spite of this being the work of an Italian artist,
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A QUESTION OK PR1CB, WESTMINSTER ABBEY. the artistic feeling about it would seem to recall slightly thelines of Holbein. The small carving to the right of the above is a highly-elate pig, playing the pipe. This is shewn in a short chapterhereafter given on Animal Musicians. The initial at the headof this chapter is illustrated with the slumbering priest, thecarving of whom is at the right of that of the Unseen SATIRES WITHOUT SATAN. in Witness, drawn on page 85. This doubtless implies thatsome portion of the sin of the people was to be attributed tothe indifference of the clergy. Balancing this, there is in theoriginal carving an aged person kneeling, and, supported bya crutch, counting her beads. In a subsequent chapter (on Compound Forms in Gothic)the harpy is mentioned, and shewn to be a not uncommonsubject of church art, either as from the malignant classicform which symbolized fierce bad weather, or as the morebeneficient though not unsimilar figure which was the symbolof Athor,

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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
  • booksponsor:University_of_Toronto
  • bookleafnumber:124
  • bookcollection:pimslibrary
  • bookcollection:toronto
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