The Grotesque in Church ArtWildridge, T. Tindall (Thomas Tindall)
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The Grotesque in Church Art
Wildridge, T. Tindall (Thomas Tindall)
Christian art and symbolism; Church decoration and ornament; Grotesque
Three branched rod, 103 (block), 162, 181-2
Time, Father, 57
Titian, 42
Topsey-turveyism, 149
Torregiano, 10
Tree of Knowledge, the, 74
Trefoil, the, 162, 178-9
_Trial of Mary and Joseph_, 82
Trigla, 180
Trinities, 168, 175-183
Tufton Street Architectural Museum, 12
Tum, the Setting Sun, 178
Typhon, 44-57, 64-5
Unseen Witness, the, 79, 85, 86, 87
Vali, 114
Vanity, 97
Vedie Trinity, 178
Venus, 21, 53, 111, 148
Veximiel, 62
Virgil, the, 160-1
Virgin Mary, the, 30, 42, 82-3
Virgo, 158
Vishnu, 53, 153, 178
Vulcan, 148, 177
Wall paintings compared with carvings, 114-117, 119-20
Wake Knot, 207-8
Wellingborough, 14, 15, 22, 34, 101, 195, 215
Wells, 65, 77, 150
Westminster Abbey, 9, 10, 91-95, 97, 109-110, 123-4, 156, 173
Wheelbarrows, 135-7, 196
Whistling Maid, the, 104-5
Whistling while drawing ale, 105
White, Wm. (1520), 173-4
Wich, Bishop de la, 124, 181
Winchester, 64, 100, 111, 145, 154, 166, 195
Windsor, 10, 167, 195, 203, 208
Winking Nun, the, 106-7
Wolf, the, 187, 189, 192;
story of the wolf's head, 187
Wolfius, 196
Worcester, 113-5, 142, 160, 161, 182-3, 203
Worm of conscience, the, 170
Wright, Thomas, 197
Wyvern, the, 47
York, 63, 65, 77, 129-30, 140, 148
Yorkshire, 10, 63, 65, 77, 106-7, 109, 127 (_see_ Beverley)
Yule, 153
Zeus, 177
Zither, 166
Zodiac, 45, 53
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Early in the thirteenth century unruly converts of the Abbey of Meaux,
Yorkshire, were, to humble their pride, made stonemasons, etc.
[2] Of Christ, the Virgin, and saints only. It is here quoted as evidence
of a tendency. It is plain that the council protected itself, for the
following distich is attributed to it, which sums up the original intent
of all images--
"Id Deus est, quod Imago docet, sed non deus ipse;
Hanc Videas, sed mente colas; quod cemis in ipse."
which Prideaux, Bishop of Worcester, translates (1681):
"A God the Image represents,
But is no God in kind;
That's the eye's object, what it shews
The object of the mind."
[3] Yet the Hindoo signification of Typhon is "the power of destruction by
heat." In this we have another piece of evidence that both the good and
the bad of the fable are referrable to the sun as his varying attributes,
and probably describe his particular effects at various portions of the
zodiacal year. The true, or rather the close, meaning of the various
accounts is obscured and confused; firstly, by imperfect knowledge as to
the geographical situations where the idea of the zodiac was conceived and
developed; secondly, by the gradual precession of the Equinoxes during the
ages which have elapsed since such conception.
[4] Mr. Robert Mann.
[5] "Sutton-in-Holderness."
[6] Roscommon.
[7] Hone.
[8] The Church Treasury, by William Andrews, 1898, p. 193.
Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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