The grotesque in church art . f our first parents, as theystand eating apples and being ashamed, one on each side ofthe composition. A carving in the choir ofChichester Cathedral shews in adouble repetition, one half ofwhich is here shewn, the evilhead with an attempt at thelegendary comeliness, mingledwith debased traits, that is artis-tically very creditable to thesculptor. As though dissatisfiedwith the amount of beauty hehad succeeded in imparting to the heads on the serpents,he adds, on the side-pieces of the carving, two other heads offemales in eastern head-dresses, to which he has impa
The grotesque in church art . f our first parents, as theystand eating apples and being ashamed, one on each side ofthe composition. A carving in the choir ofChichester Cathedral shews in adouble repetition, one half ofwhich is here shewn, the evilhead with an attempt at thelegendary comeliness, mingledwith debased traits, that is artis-tically very creditable to thesculptor. As though dissatisfiedwith the amount of beauty hehad succeeded in imparting to the heads on the serpents,he adds, on the side-pieces of the carving, two other heads offemales in eastern head-dresses, to which he has imparted a demure Dutch beauty, due perhapsto his own nationality. Human-headed serpents are in carvings atNorwich and at Bridge, Kent. With regard to Satans status asan angel, a considerable number ofrepresentations of him are to befound, in which he conforms to a pre-valent mediaeval idea as to the plumage of the spirit are found clothed entirely with feathers, as repeated THE OLD SERPENT, CHICHESTER. Ijt/i DEMURBNBSS MEDITATING MISCHIEF. DELTOID-EGYPTIAN MASK, CHICHESTER. 76 THE GROTESQUE IN CHURCH ART. some scores of times in the memorial chapel, at Ewelme, ofAlice, Duchess of Suffolk, grand-daughter of Chaucer, whodied in 1475. The annexed block shews a small archangelwhich surmounts the font canopy, and is ofthe same character as the chapel All Souls, Oxford, is a carving of awarrior-visaged person wearing a morion,and armed with a falchion and is clad in feathers only, appearing to beflying downward, and is either a representa-tion of St. Michael or Lucifer. Satan is often similarly treated. Loki,, ewelme. the tempter of the Scandinavian Eden, whowas ordered to seek the lost Idun he had deceived, had
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