Hawkes Bay NZ Water trail

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Carvings by a medieval master with a sense of humor

This single pillar inside has a ring on monks faces, each one with a different expression, carved as the finial (?). It's such a lovely unexpected thing to see, after so much ugly and violent religious art, hard to make out in the dark interiors of the typical German style cathedral.

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