Author: A Scholarly Skater
-
The First Bit of My Gargoyle Research
A few fun facts I learned while reading about gargoyles and grotesques.
-
More Gargoyles
Discover a pair of grotesques inspired by classic movies, alongside some cool Mexican-inspired ones.
-
Demons in Pen and Ink
Cover image: Jean Pucelle, The Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux, ca. 1324–28. Folios 154v-155r, The Miracle of the Breviary. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection, New York. In one of my last posts, I promised that I would talk about non-architectural grotesques. So meet the Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux, a fourteenth-century illustrated French prayer book…
-
A sneak peek of my new project
Cover image: Armchair, possibly by Gustav Herter, American (probably New York), c. 1855. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo via metmuseum.org (CC0 1.0). My Gothic Revival furniture project is coming along really well. I have a sloppy but complete first draft and am currently editing. In the meantime, I wanted to show you…
-
Welcome to my new blog!
Hi everyone! I’m Alexandra, and this is my art history blog. Thanks for reading.
