Tagged With "Grotesques"

"The terra cotta gargoyles (animal-like) and grotesques (humanlike) have chipped and flaked. Some fell from their parapets and smashed into a thousand pieces." - NYTimes. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09...ed-city-college.html

Thanks for the article Garry. I am planning a longer piece on CCNY and will use the info.

That's either a fearsome or a friendly face staring down from the Colleges of Oxford University. Marilyn Jones collected a few of these grotesques that decorate the walls.

Salvaged from the razing of buildings at the City College of New York, these gothic grotesques wait on a lawn near the School of Architecture.

DrFumblefinger shares photos of some of the gargoyles and grotesques he spotted while visiting Milan's famous Duomo.