There are human heads, no two alike, and some pulling faces; angels; animals and grotesques.
If the understanding is still weaker, he hits upon the grotesque - meaningful dreams, presentiments, and miraculous portents.
To the earlier-noted grotesque pattern of separated body parts, these pairings add a further element of the fear evoked by cosmological power-beings.
In his serenade, for example, the rhymes are obvious and stilted; more grotesque still are the violations of metre and the misplaced accents.
The pinnacles, faced with gable and finial devices, are crocketed with grotesques.
The first includes ornaments adopted from antiquity: grotesques, architectural ornaments such as the orders, foliage scrolls and self-contained elements such as trophies, terms and vases.
Light scrolling grotesques could be ordered by confining them within the framing of a pilaster to give them more structure.
Above the arches is a plain frieze with carved grotesques at the corners, topped with machicolated corbelling.
