Art and Archaeology Volume II July-December 1915 (1915)
The Archaeological Institute of America · leaf 9
t content, however,with making figures merely laboring. Hecarved two of them as acrobats with theirbodies overturned in impossible distortedpositions. And finally a grotesque, thathas met his doom and is being devouredby a monster, completes the transitionto the purely decorative Gothic… … tion and for more or less conscious sym-bolism. The Atlantes are caricatures;the Caryatids are angels. As examples ofthe former there are grotesque dwarfs atthe springing of the arches in the churchat Bury (Oise), and others help to supportthe compound shafts of the clearstoryarcade at Nevers. One…
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