The grotesque in church art . .ATE ITALIAN FOLIATE MASK, WESTMINSTER. Perhaps one of the most remarkable masks in Gothic ison another misericorde in the same town, but in St. MarysChurch ; in which the features, the head-dress, the treatmentof the ears, are all Indian, while the leaves are those of the 124 THE GROTESQUE IN CHURCH ART palm. This is, perhaps, unique as an instance of Gothic workso nearly purely Indian in its form. Sometimes the leaves are much elaborated as in one of. ripon, late Fifteenth Century. the late misericordes of Westminster Abbey ; in a few casesthe original simplicit
The grotesque in church art . .ATE ITALIAN FOLIATE MASK, WESTMINSTER. Perhaps one of the most remarkable masks in Gothic ison another misericorde in the same town, but in St. MarysChurch ; in which the features, the head-dress, the treatmentof the ears, are all Indian, while the leaves are those of the 124 THE GROTESQUE IN CHURCH ART palm. This is, perhaps, unique as an instance of Gothic workso nearly purely Indian in its form. Sometimes the leaves are much elaborated as in one of. ripon, late Fifteenth Century. the late misericordes of Westminster Abbey ; in a few casesthe original simplicity is quite lost, and we have, as at Ripon, the mask idea run mad, in-verted, and the leaves becomea graceful composition of foli-age, flower, and fruit. A rosette from the tombof Bishop de La Wich, Chich-ester, has four animal faces inan excellent design. Often masks are of thesimple description known asthe Notch-head; these are olthe thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. They are generallyfound in exposed situations at some elevation, as among theseries of corbels (corbula a small basket) or brackets called
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