FREE: Gothic Gargoyles oversized coffee table book

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Hi there. You are looking at an oversized photo book by Bill Yenne in great condition with its original dust jacket which depicts photos of beautiful gargoyles on churches and gothic style buildings all around the world. A great addition to a gothic art collection and a conversation piece to keep on your coffee table.


Overview:
In the great cities of Europe, the home of our Western classical sculptural heritage, people marvel at floodlit Donatellos, splendidly exhibited Michelangelos, and the wonderful statues that adorn the majestic cathedrals. But as the sun sets, another breed of beast, the product of the hand of a different sort of sculptor comes into its hour. They are beasts which sit as they have for as long as eight centuries, peering down upon the sleeping European cities and towns. They are the Gothic gargoyles. They are of a breed of creatures which frighten us with their appearance, while intriguing us with their mystery.

Art historian John Stocking once said that a Gothic cathedral is like a cave-rich in stalagmites and stalactites-turned inside out. And just as the formations within caves often have the appearance of being living things, so too do the surfaces of the cathedrals and the gargoyles that live amid the intricate details of those surfaces.

This book is the story of these little known beasts that inhabit those caves turned inside out, and a tribute to the anonymous craftsmen who created them. As the lights go out across Europe tonight, the gargoyles will stretch their stony necks, glance about the stare down at lively cities and sleeping villages as they have for eight centuries or so, their origins sill comfortably obscure and forever mysterious.