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Holy Terrors: Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings Benton,Janetta Rebold

Holy Terrors: Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings By Benton,Janetta Rebold

Holy Terrors: Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings by Benton,Janetta Rebold


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The introduction to this text presents the history, construction and purpose of the medieval gargoyle. The chapters that follow are devoted to the gargoyles in human, animal, and grotesque form and the carvings are considered in the context of medieval life. A guide to gargoyle sites is included.

Holy Terrors: Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings Summary

Holy Terrors: Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings by Benton,Janetta Rebold

Multitudes of gargoyles haunt the medieval buildings of western Europe, peering down from churches and cathedrals, houses and town halls. Holy Terrors offers a fresh and irresistible history of these wildly varied characters -- a society of stone creatures perched high above the workaday world. The true gargoyle is a waterspout, an architectural necessity that medieval artisans transformed into functional fantasies. The informative introduction to Holy Terrors explains everything that is known or conjectured about the history, the construction, the purposes, and the mysterious meanings of these often rude and rowdy characters. The three chapters that follow are devoted to the gargoyles themselves, imaginatively carved of stone in the form of people, real animals, and fantastic beasts. In clear, lively language, Janetta Rebold Benton puts these personality-filled sculptures into the context of medieval life and art and captures their quirky diversity in her engaging color photographs. Concluding the book is an invaluable guide to gargoyle sites throughout western Europe, as well as suggestions for further reading. This is the first book for adults to provide an intelligent and entertaining overview of medieval gargoyles, and it is bound to increase the already abundant legions of gargoyle admirers.

About Benton,Janetta Rebold

Janetta Rebold Benton is a professor of art history at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, and a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. A specialist in medieval art, Professor Benton has published several books and articles on medieval and Renaissance topics and has lectured in the United States and Europe. She has been studying and photographing gargoyles for over a decade.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: Some Facts and Some Conjectures about Gargoyles 6 HUMAN GARGOYLES 46 ANIMAL GARGOYLES 80 GROTESQUE GARGOYLES 100 Notes 126 Gargoyle Sites to Visit 130 Acknowledgements 133 Selected Bibliography 134 Index 136

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GOR002269080
9780789201829
0789201828
Holy Terrors: Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings by Benton,Janetta Rebold
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
19970417
140
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