The grotesque in church art . NOBODIES, RIPON. of the grapes of Eschol on a staff, are two somewhat similarfigures, likewise mere nobodies, though without are a covert allusion to the wonderful stories of thespies, which, it is thus hinted, are akin to the travellers talesof mediaeval times, as well as a pun on the report that theyhad seen nobody. It is evident that the idea of men without bodies came * Hone. 172 THE GROTESQUE IN CHURCH ART. from the East, and also that it had credence as an actual the Cosmographicc Universalis, printed in 1550, they arealluded to in the fo
The grotesque in church art . NOBODIES, RIPON. of the grapes of Eschol on a staff, are two somewhat similarfigures, likewise mere nobodies, though without are a covert allusion to the wonderful stories of thespies, which, it is thus hinted, are akin to the travellers talesof mediaeval times, as well as a pun on the report that theyhad seen nobody. It is evident that the idea of men without bodies came * Hone. 172 THE GROTESQUE IN CHURCH ART. from the East, and also that it had credence as an actual the Cosmographicc Universalis, printed in 1550, they arealluded to in the following terms :— Sunt qui cervicibuscarent et in humeris habet oculos ; De India ultra Gangem iluvium sita. There are many carvings whichare more or less of the samecharacter, and probably intendedto embody the idea of conscienceor sins. The two rather indecorous fig--ures shewn in the following blocknondescript, Christ church, hants. from Great Malvern are varietiesdoubtless typifying
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