Gravely Gorgeous


Notre Dame de Paris, Tower Galleries, ca. 1870-86
Gargoyles, Grotesques & the Nineteenth-Century Imagination. "So asked the twelfth-century Cistercian reformer, Bernard of Clairvaux. Fortunately, his condemnation of gargoyles and grotesques did not halt the carving of the fantastic beast during his day. By the time of the Renaissance, however, artisans had virtually ceased to carve them."
Gravely Gorgeous

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