The Grotesque in Church Art

Part 11

Chapter 11478 wordsPublic domain

Torregiano, 10

Tree of Knowledge, the, 74

Trefoil, the, 162, 178-9

_Trial of Mary and Joseph_, 82

Trigla, 180

Trinities, 168, 175-183

Tufton Street Architectural Museum, 12

Tum, the Setting Sun, 178

Typhon, 44-57, 64-5

Unseen Witness, the, 79, 85, 86, 87

Vali, 114

Vanity, 97

Vedie Trinity, 178

Venus, 21, 53, 111, 148

Veximiel, 62

Virgil, the, 160-1

Virgin Mary, the, 30, 42, 82-3

Virgo, 158

Vishnu, 53, 153, 178

Vulcan, 148, 177

Wall paintings compared with carvings, 114-117, 119-20

Wake Knot, 207-8

Wellingborough, 14, 15, 22, 34, 101, 195, 215

Wells, 65, 77, 150

Westminster Abbey, 9, 10, 91-95, 97, 109-110, 123-4, 156, 173

Wheelbarrows, 135-7, 196

Whistling Maid, the, 104-5

Whistling while drawing ale, 105

White, Wm. (1520), 173-4

Wich, Bishop de la, 124, 181

Winchester, 64, 100, 111, 145, 154, 166, 195

Windsor, 10, 167, 195, 203, 208

Winking Nun, the, 106-7

Wolf, the, 187, 189, 192; story of the wolf's head, 187

Wolfius, 196

Worcester, 113-5, 142, 160, 161, 182-3, 203

Worm of conscience, the, 170

Wright, Thomas, 197

Wyvern, the, 47

York, 63, 65, 77, 129-30, 140, 148

Yorkshire, 10, 63, 65, 77, 106-7, 109, 127 (_see_ Beverley)

Yule, 153

Zeus, 177

Zither, 166

Zodiac, 45, 53

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Early in the thirteenth century unruly converts of the Abbey of Meaux, Yorkshire, were, to humble their pride, made stonemasons, etc.

[2] Of Christ, the Virgin, and saints only. It is here quoted as evidence of a tendency. It is plain that the council protected itself, for the following distich is attributed to it, which sums up the original intent of all images--

"Id Deus est, quod Imago docet, sed non deus ipse; Hanc Videas, sed mente colas; quod cemis in ipse."

which Prideaux, Bishop of Worcester, translates (1681):

"A God the Image represents, But is no God in kind; That's the eye's object, what it shews The object of the mind."

[3] Yet the Hindoo signification of Typhon is "the power of destruction by heat." In this we have another piece of evidence that both the good and the bad of the fable are referrable to the sun as his varying attributes, and probably describe his particular effects at various portions of the zodiacal year. The true, or rather the close, meaning of the various accounts is obscured and confused; firstly, by imperfect knowledge as to the geographical situations where the idea of the zodiac was conceived and developed; secondly, by the gradual precession of the Equinoxes during the ages which have elapsed since such conception.

[4] Mr. Robert Mann.

[5] "Sutton-in-Holderness."

[6] Roscommon.

[7] Hone.

[8] The Church Treasury, by William Andrews, 1898, p. 193.

Transcriber's Notes:

Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.

The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these letters have been replaced with transliterations.

The original text contains a hieroglyph. This is noted in this text as [symbol].