Items in Paris

Grotesque Head [detail]

A good picture for All-Souls Night or Halloween!

A detail from Grotesque Head

Keywords: heads, statues, fountains, gargoyles, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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Grotesque Head

By M. Legrain. From the Cascade Basin. [at the Paris Exhibition of 1878] A good gargoyle picture for All-Souls Night or Halloween! “These masks, modelled by M. Legrain, were among the most amusing ex [...]

Keywords: heads, statues, fountains, gargoyles, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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Colossal Bull

By M. Cain. Grand Basin of the Trocadéro Palace.) “One of the chief features of the paris Exhibition of 1878 was the magnificent waterfall beneath the Trocadéro Palace and the grand basin at the foot [...]

Keywords: statues, bulls, animals

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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11.—Gaulish Deity. Cernunnos.

The Celtic god Cernunnos is crowned with antlers. He is sometimes also called as Herne the Hunter, and may be the Green Man of British folklore. “[...] Under the church of Notre Dame, at Paris, were f [...]

Keywords: spirit, druids, gods, religion

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-12-20

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12.—Gaulish Deity. Hesus.

A Celtic war god

Keywords: spirit, druids, gods, religion, spooky

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-12-20

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Young Bekie

The picture shows a young man lying on the floor of a prison cell or castle dungeon [donjon], his hands on his head, and with one ankle chained to the wall. There are a great number of rats or mice i [...]

Keywords: interiors, prisons, animals, people, chains, colour, spooky

Places shown: Paris; France

Added: 2006-05-13

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