Wildridge, T. Tindall (Thomas Tindall) · London, W. Andrews · leaf 54
MYTHIC ORIGIN OF CHURCH CARVINGS. 39 At Exeter, an ingenious grotesque composition of two duck-footed harpies, one on either side of a fleur-de-hs, is evidently from the same source. Examples of this could be multiplied very readily. … Beverley and at Wells. Man has an almost universal passion for the oral trans- mission of the fruits of his mental activity. In the particular instances of many lingual compositions this passion has become an inveterate race habit, and the rhymes or reasons have been transmitted verbally to…
Art, European · Grotesque · Christian art and symbolism · Church decoration and ornament
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