Grotesques

Connected Sites: 14

In art, grotesques are a decorative form of arabesques with interlaced garlands and strange animal figures.

Connected Sites

  • Fontainebleau
    Inscribed: 1981
    3.65
    255
    9
  • Villa d'Este
    Inscribed: 2001
    3.27
    245
    9
  • Vatican City
    Inscribed: 1984
    4.30
    613
    9
    Raphael's Loggias
  • Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
    Inscribed: 1994
    3.34
    239
    11
    Villa Badoer in Fratta Polesine
  • La Lonja de la Seda
    Inscribed: 1996
    2.71
    200
    7
    "It is lit by soaring Gothic windows, the external frames of which, like the doors, are exuberantly ornamented, notably by a series of grotesque gargoyles." (AB ev)
  • Rome
    Rome
    Holy See, Italy
    Inscribed: 1980
    4.57
    662
    13
    Domus Aurea
  • El Escurial
    Inscribed: 1984
    3.35
    255
    13
    Gallery of Battles at the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial.
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Cordouan Lighthouse
    Inscribed: 2021
    3.00
    44
    5
    On the outside and inside of the lighthouse, there are decorations of mascarons, some of them "with grotesque faces", that are sometimes accompanied by plant motifs. (Nomination file, p. 53, 67)
  • Vienna
    Vienna
    Austria
    Inscribed: 2001
    4.02
    592
    20
    Hall of Grotesque, Lower Belvedere
  • Syracuse
    Inscribed: 2005
    3.59
    248
    8
    The central portal of the Cathedral is surrounded by a semicircular tympanum with an arched shape which is surrounded by floral motifs represented by garlands and grotesque masks. (wiki)
    See it.wikipedia.org
  • Poblet Monastery
    Inscribed: 1991
    3.05
    157
    8
    The altarpiece in alabaster by Damián Forment is a Roman-style altarpiece with a Renaissance architectural design and grotesques
    See es.wikipedia.org
  • Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.91
    325
    6
    Hall of Realms: "a ceiling covered in grotesques"
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Florence
    Inscribed: 1982
    4.45
    588
    15
    Grotticina at Boboli Gardens
  • Assisi
    Assisi
    Italy
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.76
    250
    8
    The vault located under the Palazzo dei Priori is decorated with grotesques, painted in 1556 by a "Raphael Pictor" on the order of the Governor Marcello Tuto. (Nomination file, p. 31)