All during our days as keepers of a restaurant in the town of Bidwell, Ohio, the grotesques in their little glass bottles sat on a shelf back of the counter.
In the first, the grotesque heads in the mouldings are like the dull grotesques Michael Angelo appears to have designed in the architecture of the Tomb of Julius and on the armour of the captains in this chapel.
The grotesques on the bases are of good design, and the drill holes of the marble cutting are simply left to tell their story of how the work was done, instead of being cut away and hidden as in later work.
The early Christian masons appear to have caricatured under the form of such grotesques the personages of the heathen mythology, and to this practice we perhaps owe some of the types of the mediaeval monsters.
A good example of Rowlandson's grotesques of the human figure is given in our cut No.
The carved ends of the cusps are in reality the heads of extraordinary grotesques whose bodies are curled up against the under surface of the arch.
These gables have their sides curved inwards and are adorned with crockets and finials, the latter being attached to the front of the gable, while grotesques project from the angles.
This is an entirely foolish and unlovely design: in most cases it is quite lacking in real humour, and makes one think more of the senseless Roman grotesques and those of the Renaissance.
Nor perhaps has any artist since appeared who equals him in this respect, and in happily adapting to grotesques little histories, full of spirit and elegance, and with figures which form a school for design.
Baglione acquaints us with another, called Marzio di Colantonio, a Roman by birth, who excelled in grotesques and landscapes.
Batista, who, dissatisfied with his allottedgrotesques and landscapes, insisted on shining as a figurist.
The finest chateau on the most beautiful site is a frightful "desert"; nobody is seen there save the grotesques of a small town or the village peasants.
Two styles are here juxtaposed: here are the monsters, the grotesques and the foliage of Romanesque art, and there the more sober and truthful sculpture of Gothic art.
All other orders are varieties of those, or phantasms and grotesquesaltogether indefinite in number and species.
The arabesques and grotesques on the Gubbio wares are usually of great merit.
The workshops of Siena were also noted for delicately painted grotesques and arabesques, with a rich brownish-yellow or deep black ground.
The archaic taste of Deruta, the arabesques andgrotesques of Faenza and Castel Durante, and in a lesser degree the "istoriato" style of Urbino, reigned in turn.
Some ornamental painters and of grotesqueswe have already noticed, to which list we may add Aurelio Buso, mentioned with praise among the native Venetian artists, and here again justly recorded for his labours.
His grotesques in fresco boast no ordinary merit; and these he varied with every species of strange animals, executed with great spirit.
In these last his hand will more truly appear in his War of Troy, preserved at the royal court; in his history of Lucretia; and in those little cabinets ornamented by him withgrotesques and other ingenious fancies.
Mingled with these grotesques are many sword and buckler combats, the bucklers being round and conical like a hat; I thought the first I noticed, carried by a man at full gallop on horseback, had been a small umbrella.
Such arabesques are called grotesquesby the ignorant.
Quaint as are the grotesquesderived from the great symbolic Dragon, there is another series of delineations of Evil, which are still more curious.
As far back as the twelfth century, a critic of churchgrotesques recognized their combination of contrasts.
Though the force of the myth symbols has passed away, they have left another legacy than the grotesques of church art.
Outside the present purpose of looking at them as unintentional grotesques they are very valuable specimens of the English art of painting of dates which have, except in illuminations, no other examples.
This place may be taken to dispose of two kinds of grotesques in church art which belong to my title, though not to my intention.
Thus we see that there are combinations of two kinds of contrast which make Gothic grotesques agreeable, the artistic contrasts among the mere lines of the carvings, and the significatory contrasts evolved by the meanings of the carvings.
There are numbers of grotesques which are satires evidently aimed at sins, but which have not the visible attendance of the evil one himself.
It may be as well to first say a little upon those comicalities which may be styled 'grotesques by misadventure.
There is little or no doubt that the carvers of our grotesques were members of the mysterious society which has developed into the modern body of Freemasons.
But while leaving the falseness of the taste for grotesques an open question, there is something to be said for them without straining fact.
Only, I observe that in your letter there is no allusion to the copy of "Histoires grotesques et serieuses" that I asked Michel Levy to send you.
Dear friend, I take advantage of the "Histoires grotesques et serieuses" to remind myself of you.
The petite and mignonne of Raphael's grotesques was no longer suited to the people, or, to put it otherwise, the people were not such as seek expression in refinement, for all art is but the visible evidence of a state of mind or soul.
Karcher thus signed his marvellously executed grotesques of Bacchiacca which hang in the gallery of tapestries in Florence.
Its roof is like the upturned hull of some great ocean-galley, and all round the timbers, where the upper line of walls meets the vault above, a company of queer grotesques are carved which Rabelais himself might have suggested.
Salvatore del Lauro, with some grotesques on the vaulting, and likewise an Annunciation on the façade outside, which was executed by his pupil, Girolamo Sermoneta.
In addition to those niches, the said loggia is all wrought in stucco and has the walls and ceilings all painted with grotesques by the hand of Giovanni da Udine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grotesques" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.