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Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
Accession Number: 15/5/3090.01577
Title: Two Grotesques
Photograph date: ca. 1865-ca. 1895
Location: Europe: France
Materials: albumen print
Image: 7.6378 x 10.75 in.; 19.4 x 27.305 cm
Provenance: Gift of Andrew Dickson White
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5tsm
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A crop of this photo was published, with my permission, in Tim Collins' Behind the Lost Symbol.
Darth Vader is one of the numerous
carved grotesques on the Cathedral. Like gargoyles, grotesques carry rain water away from the building’s walls. Gargoyles carry away excess water via pipes running through their mouths; grotesques deflect rainwater by bouncing it off the top of their heads, noses or other projecting parts, and away from the stone walls.
How did Darth Vader, a fictional villain
from the Star Wars movies, end up on the wall of Washington National Cathedral? In the 1980s the Cathedral, with National Geographic World magazine, sponsored a competition for children to design decorative sculpture for the Cathedral. The third-place winner was Christopher Rader of Kearney, Nebraska who submitted a drawing of this futuristic representation of evil. Darth Vader was placed on the northwest tower with the other winning
designs: a raccoon, a girl with pigtails and braces and a man with large teeth and an umbrella. The fierce head was sculpted by Jay Hall Carpenter and carved by Patrick J. Plunkett.
Not a very good photo but at least you get the idea. At the Washington National Cathedral, whose official name is the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Washington, D.C.
On the Cathedral Buildings, facing the rear of St Nicholas' Cathedral. There are several theories to what this actually represents but i came across it for the first time today
Central Tower, York Minster
Gargoyles came into gothic architecture in the early 13th century and are defined as "a waterspout, projecting from an upper part of a building, or a roof gutter, to throw water clear of walls or foundations." The origins of the word 'gargoyle' are derived from the old French word 'gargouille' meaning throat. In Architectural terms only the creature serving as actual water spout is called a Gargoyle, otherwise is it known as a Grotesque. A grotesque may function solely as decoration.
These are clearly fairly new replacements for original weathered grotesques as part of ongoing masonary work at the Minster.
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Today’s Cathedral has its roots in the seventh century, when England’s pagan monarchy first became Christians.
In 635, Cynegils, king of the West Saxons, was baptised. Just over a decade later, his son Cenwalh built the first Christian church in Winchester, the heart of Anglo-Saxon Wessex.
This small, cross-shaped church became known as Old Minster. You can still see where it stood, its outline traced in red brick, just north of the present building.
Soon, Old Minster became a cathedral, housing the throne (cathedra) of a bishop who held sway over a huge diocese that stretched from the English Channel to the river Thames.
This was now the most important royal church in Anglo-Saxon England. It was the burial place for some of the earliest kings of Wessex, including King Alfred the Great.
Here too King Cnut, who ruled England and Denmark in the early 11th century, chose to be buried, and was joined by his wife Queen Emma on her death in 1052.
By the early 16th century, much of the Cathedral you see today was complete.
New secular names became linked to this place, to add to those of mighty kings and bishops, from the 17th-century angler Izaak Walton to the great early 19th-century English novelist Jane Austen.
The 19th century saw much restoration work, including new stone statues for the huge 15th-century Great Screen behind the altar. The Cathedral’s Organ, a cut-down version of a huge organ displayed at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, was bought.
By the early 1900s, there were fears that the east end of this ancient building would collapse, after centuries of subsidence. Deep-sea diver, William Walker, worked under water in total darkness for six years to stabilise them.
Today, after 12 centuries, this great Cathedral church remains the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and centre of the Diocese of Winchester. Its beautiful spaces continue to echo to the sound of daily prayers and glorious sacred music.
For all in between please see: www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/our-heritage/our-history/
Week 14/52
This week’s theme for my 52 project is “Painting with Light.” This small gargoyle is only a little over 2 inches tall. I used a flashlight and long exposure to create this shot. I wanted the light primarily coming from the left but added light from other directions to bring out details.
Technically, this is a grotesque rather than a gargoyle. A gargoyle incorporates a water spout to carry water off a building.
Têtes sculptées de la cathédrale Notre-Dame, Reims (Marne). Circa 1880.
Joseph Trompette (1845-1891).
Palladio-platinotype sur papier Arches Platine.
Format : 21 x 27.3 cm - Papier : 28 x 38 cm.
Palladium-platinum print on Arches Platine paper.
Size: 8.25” x 10.75” - Paper size: 11” x 15”.
Tirage Laurent Gloaguen. 2013.