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GARGOYLES AND GROTESQUES: Paganism in the Medieval Church by Ronald & Anne Ross Sheridan

GARGOYLES AND GROTESQUES: Paganism in the Medieval Church

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Pub Date: Nov. 3rd, 1975
Publisher: Little, Brown

The aesthetics of the leer, with 120 illustrations from medieval churches and cathedrals all over Europe. Sheridan, a photographer, and Ross, a British authority on the Celts, set out to identify the pagan models for these most un-Christian, un-orthodox carvings.