Gargoyles
One reason for this is the belief that frightening figures could scare away evil spirits, and they were put on the outsides of buildings to do just that.
Jan Van Eyck
Jan Van Eyck was a Netherlandish painter from Belgium. He was part of the Northern Renaissance but there was a clear Gothic inspiration with the use of dark colors in his works. Not only did he use oil paints for those dark colors but he also used Egg Tempra. Which both took long to dry and master using.
I like the pictures you picked for this Gargoyles thing and they are very dramatic looking, if you could explain through these pictures that would be awesome. Anyway the pictures are really eye ball catching.
ReplyDeletecool stuff!! I would recommend more writing to accompany the pictures but otherwise your blog is very cute and packed with interesting things!
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