Looking at them as a passer-by, I’ve always been really attracted to gargoyles<\/a>. This is undoubtedly the main reason why I chose to write a PhD thesis on them. However, as an art historian, I’m passionate about art in general, especially medieval art.<\/p>\n Historians usually have a passion for study and research. When I was writing my thesis, I used technical and systematic analysis and an applied methodology, plus I researched the literature, trying to compile as much material as possible on the subject. I must confess that this bibliographic and documentary study was fascinating, although (and all you historians and researchers in general will understand this) it was a never-ending process, because as my work progressed, new doors kept opening up to further investigation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As an art historian<\/a>, and especially as a lover of research and history, in this second post I want to share a few extracts from the literature references included in my thesis, by authors (some of whom are essential reading) who are useful as a starting-point for delving into the fabulous world of images of gargoyles and their iconography<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Batalha Monastery (Portugal)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gothic Middle Ages was not only moving towards the order of life, realism and the West, it also had its surrealist side, its artifices and exoticisms. A more tormented Middle Ages, inhabited by monsters and miracles is reinstated and developed as part of the evangelical and humanist Medieval period<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2014 Jurgis Baltru\u0161aitis<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n\t\tGargoyles in Literature and Art Criticism<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nBaltru\u0161aitis and the Fantastic Dimension of the Medieval World<\/h3>\n