On the meaning of gargoyles
1. Introduction : gargoylesGargoyles, with their characteristic long zoomorphic bodies protruding from the upper parts of buildings were a novelty in the first decennia of the thirteenth century. It is generally held that they made their first appearance around 1220 on the west front of Laon Cathed...
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Bulletin du centre d’études médiévales d’Auxerre | BUCEMA
2023
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Crynodeb: | 1. Introduction : gargoylesGargoyles, with their characteristic long zoomorphic bodies protruding from the upper parts of buildings were a novelty in the first decennia of the thirteenth century. It is generally held that they made their first appearance around 1220 on the west front of Laon Cathedral, an idea that can be traced back to Viollet-le-Duc’s Dictionnaire raisonnée de l’architecture, published between 1854 and 1868. These gargoyles, so he writes, were of animal shape, large and fe... |
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