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In the great great cities of Europe, the home of our Western classical sculptural heritage, people marvel at floodlit Donatellos, splen- didly exhibited Michelangelos, and the wonderful statues that adorn the majestic (gothic) cathedrals. But as the sun sets, another breed of beast, the product of the hand of a different sort of sculptor, comes into its hour. They are beasts which sit as they have for as long as eight centuries, peering down upon the sleep- ing European cities and towns. They are the Gothic gargoyles. They are of a breed of creatures which frighten us with their appearance, while intriguing us with their mystery. Art historian John Stocking once said that a Gothic cathedral is like a cave — rich in stalagmites and stalactites — turned inside out. And just as the formations within caves often have the appearance of being living things, so too do the surfaces of the cathedrals and the gargoyles that live amid the intri- cate details of those surfaces. The texture of the cathedral’s surface is intricately and deliberate- ly carved by human hands, yet when the gothic cathedral is observed from a distance, it has the appearance of being a natural or organic environment.

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Author

yenne bill

Published

1998

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction