{"id":18593,"date":"2025-10-21T17:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doloresherrero.com\/videos-the-gargoyle-and-its-iconography\/video-que-es-una-gargola\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:31:03","slug":"video-what-is-a-gargoyle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/doloresherrero.com\/en\/videos-the-gargoyle-and-its-iconography\/video-what-is-a-gargoyle\/","title":{"rendered":"#1 \u2013 What is a Gargoyle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0;\" title=\"#1 \u2013 What is a Gargoyle?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GT8tb50s20A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 25px;\">Welcome to this series of educational videos devoted to the study of <a href=\"https:\/\/doloresherrero.com\/en\/the-gargoyles\/\">gargoyles<\/a> from a functional, historical, artistic, and <a href=\"https:\/\/doloresherrero.com\/en\/symbolism-in-images-of-gargoyles\/\">symbolic<\/a> perspective. In this first episode, we explore the definition of the gargoyle, its etymological origin, and its architectural function, laying the foundations for understanding its iconographic and constructive evolution throughout the centuries.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"border:none; border-top:1px solid #cccccc; margin:30px auto 15px; width:50%;\" \/>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; font-size:13px; color:#777777; line-height:1.4; font-style:italic; margin-bottom:30px;\">\n  The video on this page is the property of <strong>Dolores Herrero \u00a9 doloresherrero.com<\/strong>.<br \/>\n  It is protected by copyright.<br \/>\n  For academic, educational, editorial or any other use, please contact:<br \/>\n  <a href=\"mailto:lola@doloresherrero.com\" style=\"color:#777777; text-decoration:underline;\">lola@doloresherrero.com<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to this series of educational videos devoted to the study of gargoyles from a functional, historical, artistic, and symbolic perspective. In this first episode, we explore the definition of the gargoyle, its etymological origin, and its architectural function, laying the foundations for understanding its iconographic and constructive evolution throughout the centuries. The video on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7320,"parent":15535,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[2398,72,840,2059,80],"class_list":["post-18593","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-etymology","tag-gargoyles-en","tag-gothic-architecture","tag-iconography","tag-symbolism-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doloresherrero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doloresherrero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doloresherrero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doloresherrero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doloresherrero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doloresherrero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19476,"href":"https:\/\/doloresherrero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18593\/revisions\/19476"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doloresherrero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doloresherrero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doloresherrero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doloresherrero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}