Oddly grotesque
Clock Tower, St Albans, Hertfordshire Gargoyles, these charmingly grotesque figures, date back as far as Ancient Egyptian architecture and, in more recent times, became a common feature in Gothic architecture. […]
Baroque meets grotesque
The late baroque Palazzo Cosentini (completed 1779), Ragusa Ibla, Sicily, September 2021 Copyright Debbie Smyth, 28 October 2021 Posted as part of Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge …
Grotesque
Gazing out across St Albans from its medieval town belfry, the Clock Tower, are a couple of grotesque faces. In the early fifteenth century, some time between 1403 and 1412, the […]
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