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The grotesque in church art (1899)
Wildridge, T. Tindall (Thomas Tindall) · London, W. Andrews · leaf 90
SATANIC REPRESENTATIONS. a5 serpent, whose coils are difficult to distinguish from the foliage of the tree, has the head of a saturnine Asiatic, who is taking the least possible notice of “our first: parents,” as they stand eating apples and being ashamed, one on each side of the composition. … 1 th tury. with the amount of beauty he FE EE had succeeded in imparting to the heads on the serpents, he adds, on the side-pieces of the carving, two other heads of females in eastern head-dresses, to which he has imparted a demure Dutch beauty, due perhaps to his own nationality. © Human- headed…Art, European · Grotesque · Christian art and symbolism · Church decoration and ornament
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