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cuties-in-codices · 3 months

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"guide to the construction of letters"

pages from the "model book of calligraphy", vienna, originally created by georg bocskay from 1561-62, illuminated and expanded by joris hoefnagel, c. 1591–96

source: Getty Museum Collection, Ms. 20 (86.MV.527), fol. 143r-147r

#16th century #joris hoefnagel #mira calligraphiae monumenta #model book of calligraphy #guide to the construction of letters #georg bocskay #calligraphy #geometry #diagrams #hybrids #grotesques #illuminated manuscript

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hometoursandotherstuff · 1 year

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The art of the gargoyle is a fascinating one- I have a coffee table book on Gargoyles and always wished I could have a house with them. This little guy is an example of Medieval humor in Abbey of Sainte Foy, France c.1050.

The art of the gargoyle is not only an artistic element on the buildings, especially churches, but it also has a practical usage. Gargoyles have a gothic style like grotesques. But unlike grotesques, gargoyles often have an open mouth to help drain away rainwater.

A groove is cut along the top of the statue. When rain falls, it travels along this groove and falls through the gargoyle’s open mouth onto the roads below.

The word gargoyle comes from the French ‘gargouille’, which translates to the word throat.

According to an old French legend there was a dragon called La Gargouille who lived in a cave near the River Seine, ate humans and caused chaos.

In the year 600, a Christian priest offered to deliver the people from the dragon in exchange for their converting to Christianity and building a church.

People began carving the dragon’s head on the sides of buildings, and often onto water spouts, leading to the gargoyles we see on churches and cathedrals today.

While grotesques include all decorative architectural creatures, whether or not they have drainage, gargoyles always have drainage conduits. Thus, not all grotesques are gargoyles, but all gargoyles are grotesques.

Doesn’t this one look like Alien?

And, this is what happens when it’s cold!

https://themindcircle.com/scary-sculptures-the-art-of-gargoyle/

#gargoyles #grotesques #other stuff

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charlesreeza · 30 days

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Beautifully carved pew ends in St. Barbara's Cathedral

Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

#wood carving #antique furniture #grotesques #old world craftsmanship #flowers foliage and fruit

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doomed-jester · 10 months

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Gargoyle:

Some fuckin guy: "you know technically you're a grotesque, not a gargoyle. Gargoyles have water spouts."

Gargoyle:

#i think i'm funny #gargoyle #gargoyles #grotesque #grotesques #architecture #gravity falls #stan pines #grunkle stan #shitpost #meme #memes

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postcard-from-the-past · 20 days

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Grotesques of the Amiens Cathedral, Picardy region of France

French vintage postcard

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wouldiweresteadfastasthouart · 3 months

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#dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #oxford #architecture #grotesque #grotesques #gothic #stone sculpture #sculpture

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godzilla-reads · 1 year

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Gargoyle Books for Grotesques

God Bless the Gargoyles by Dave Pilkey- A cute and thoughtful book on the history of gargoyles and their friendship with angels. It has nice art AND it rhymes!

2. Holy Terrors: Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings by Janetta Rebold Benton- A very nice book full of pictures of our favorite grotesques and gargoyles.

3. The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy #1) by Jonathan Stroud- A young boy, desperate to prove himself as a magician, secretly summons Bartimaeus, and compels the djinn to steal the Amulet of Samarkand.

4. The Gargoyle Overhead by Philippa Dowding-What if your best friend was a naughty 400-year-old gargoyle? And what if he just happened to be in terrible danger? It’s not always easy, but thirteen-year-old Katherine Newberry is friends with a gargoyle

5. Night of the Gargoyles by Eve Bunting and David Wiesner- Moody, charcoal-powder drawings dramatize a tale of the secret life of gargoyles.

6. Song of the Gargoyle by Zilpha Keatley Snyder- A strange sound awakens thirteen-year-old Tymmon in the dead of night. In a blink of an eye his father, the court jester of Austerneve, is mysteriously kidnapped and the terrified boy must slip away secretly to avoid capture himself.Hiding in the dreaded forest nearby, Tymmon is adopted by a huge, furry, dog-like creature--a gargoyle--who has the loyalty of a dog and the fearsome powers of an enchanted being.

7. The Accidental Alchemist by Gigi Pandian- Looking for a new start, immortal alchemist Zoe Faust stumbles upon a gargoyle who needs her help.

8. The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity by Michael Camille- Most of the seven million people who visit the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris each year probably do not realize that the legendary gargoyles adorning this medieval masterpiece were not constructed until the nineteenth century.

9. The Gargoyle on the Roof by Jack Prelutsky- I love Prelutsky's books and this one has 17 10. poems you'll love.

10. Anthony and the Gargoyle by Jo Ellen Bogart and Maja Kastelic- A boy befriends a baby gargoyle in this magical wordless story in graphic-novel style.

#godzilla reads #gargoyle books #gargoyles #grotesques #gargoyles and grotesques #book recs #book list #reading list #booklr #book blog #book blurb #booklife #booklover

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emmaklee · 1 year

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creepy freakin Trinity craved on a church

#grotesques #or gargoyles

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furiarossa · 9 months

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Ballpoint pen sketch of a capon grotesque posing in the typical "proud" pose of his category, the one in which they (metaphorically) bring the world on their shoulders.

Capons, often referred to as "Atlantes," are grotesques that have had their gonads removed and are much larger as a result of this surgery than they otherwise would have been if they had been whole. Caponisation is practiced on young males who seem very promising and who are supposed to grow a lot, with the aim of creating individuals of exaggerated size, much higher than that of the other specimens present in the family group. This practice, which may seem barbaric, was actually central to the survival of the grotesques and gave rise to many of their "legendary warriors". Caponised males do not fully develop horns and spines, but there is no loss of muscle mass. Fat mass, on the other hand, tends to increase a lot, due to the slowdown in metabolism, and capons must have a controlled diet if they don't want to gain too much weight.

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#grotesques #grotesque #oc #art #my art #traditional art #black and white #ballpoint pen #black ballpoint pen #2023

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marlutterianae · 2 years

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DISMALIA ~ Samiginus, the Grotesque Tyrant, Rider of Chimeras.

Conqueror of the Dismal Frontier. This little fiend came out in blazing scorch to the world, found he had brothers and was finally heard. He was the Nightmare's own error, who grew like a tree and was fated to spread terror!

He has said... "Follow me my wretched fiends. Ride proud your brethren, wield the impaled brain as your banner. Spread the enlightenment like a torch heralding war to come. We shall become a Legion. One more hill, to die on or to conquer! Soon, we shall hunt down and bleed out the very dawn and darken the cities of men!". And one single hellish Cockatrice Demon Knight thought... “You have cursed us all, tyrant. With your endless hunger for power... This hubris shall be your downfall. You cannot lean your massive swollen ego over your bannered spinal brain lance forever! The grander you become, the more your own support fractures... Your weapon of conquest is nothing but a cane. As frail as one!”. A chimeric abomination born from the sands of the wasteland and hardened by its adversity. He became tough as nails. He isn't a crestfallen demon with lost Nightmare divinity or cosmic heat. He manifested from carnal, scorched earth. Samiginus is also a demon, much like Bosco and Praetoria, obsessed by glory. He used to be a little runt, a small Grotesque, not much bigger than a man. But he began to hunt down those that abused little demons like him as pawns. One day he took advantage of a Mystic who fell from the skies like a meteor, and its brain was exposed.

The Mystic Demon tried to mind control Samiginus to feed it with his own body to regenerate faster, but he resisted and impaled its brain with a stick, lifting it high and roaring. The brain spread its tentacles and tried to consume Samiginus, but miraculously, the shock from the brain's charges granted him more intellect. Demons with multiple heads often go mad because those many heads cannot find a balance.

But Samiginus suffered an electric shock of magic which cleared his mind, and granted him the necessary force of will to calm his many heads, and began training and growing. Hunting demons with powerful brains to devour them, and learned how to feed his many heads individually. He grew up to a Chimera's size. Chimeras usually are mindless beasts that are in a constant state of self devouring (making them dangerous, Renkora fights them all the time) but Samiginus not only was huge but he was smart. And soon, he began to mount Chimeras like horses. And eventually, train other Grotesques like him in mounting Chimeras. Becoming their leader.

He used the impaled brains of magical demons to emanate radiation to inspire and strengthen the will and intellect of his horde. He became too strong that he took over an old fortress of demon hunters. But it wasn't enough for him. He wanted everything. He became just like the Tyrants that he hated. And soon he wanted to conquer Dismalia and the shielding city of Phobos. From the story "DISMALIA Hunts ~ Dread & Glory: Passional Skirmish at Desolation Road". Art by AntEater / il_formichiere Link: https://twitter.com/il_formichiere

#monster design #dark fantasy #demons #medieval demons #chimera #grotesques #dismalia #dismalia hunts #monsters #sword & sorcery #horror #post apocalyptic

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betabites · 6 months

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Some quick and dirty minis to contrast with the precision I needed for Sarumans. A nice little warband of churchyard grotesques to serve as scenery and/or threats. Just need to do another, more targeted drybrush of metallic copper, and they should be all finished.

#painting miniatures #orktober #reaper miniatures #grotesques #gargoyles

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manticone-blog · 2 years

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A hammer-headed bat and some grotesques (possibly gargoyles but I can not see if there are spouts.)

The hammer-headed bat is native to Africa and the grostesques featured are generally quite old - which would have made it unlikely that the Europeans who created and carved these figures had ever seen this animal in the flesh.

Makes one wonder about Jungian archetypes; the potential for anchestrally shared, almost cellularly dormant 'memories' that underscore and generate a sense of apprehension or even fear when we meet animals or others that deviate from our individual experiences.