Showing posts with label ironwork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ironwork. Show all posts

5.11.2009

The Gates of Hell

Well, not quite. But these ironwork monstrosities (in the VERY best way, and you know I mean that) are so sublimely beautiful I needed to share. Gothic font, quatrefoils, arches, rococo waves, art nouveau forms, forged ironwork... how I love you. And how interesting is the perspectival illusion of depth in the below right image?!


Screen, 18th century. Church of St. Ulrich, Augsburg



From Decorative Ironwork by Umberto imelli and Giovanni Vergerio.
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