Gargoyle mascot in Western architecture

By admin on August 4, 2015

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KTND - The gargoyle hilarious animated film " Hunchback of Notre Dame "that I just remembered. As a child I thought it was creative arts author movies, but actually not.

In architecture, is a form gargoyle sculpture extremely diverse decorations associated with roof drainage gutters are mounted on the walls of buildings, to prevent water seepage down the walls eroding mortar.

The designers often use multiple gargoyle to divide rainfall flushed down from the roof to a minimum, aim fastest roof drainage.Gutters are located behind the gargoyle and rainwater will be drained in the snout is expanding.

Gargoyle is usually designed as a creature so bizarre elongated length is determined by the distance necessary to carry water from high walls break down. When the Gothic buttresses are used, the water pipes are sometimes inserted into the cylinder wall to deflect away across the water towards the side wall.

1. The term derives from the French word gargouille, and in English it means near the "throat" or other understandings are known as "esophageal / throat / eo creek (river and sea)".

From Latin gurgulio, Gula, gargula ("esophagus / eo sea river creek" or "throat") and similar words derived from gar (individual clones), to gargola, "gargoyle"). It is also linked to the French verb meaning gargariser to "gargle".

Italian word gargoyle is just doccione or gronda sporgente, a cluster of architectural terms exactly means "protruding / protrusion / bulge".

When not being used as a waterspout, gargoyle only decorative function only. From accurate to refer to this sculpture is chimeric (his monster tail goat, lion head), or boss (bulge, lugs protruding).

Along with the boss and chimera, gargoyle mascot was identified as causing panic and assume the function of protection: guard / guard the church away from evil or harmful spirits.

2. A Tale of gargouille of France said that it was derived from the name of St. Romanus (Romain / 631-641 AD), chancellor of the ancient Merovingian King Clotaire II, who was appointed bishop of Rouen region . His inventory associated with monsters Gargouille (or Goji) or around it here in Rouen region.

Gargouille supposedly archetypal features of a dragon with bat wings, a long neck and ability breathing fire from the muzzle.

Its head is then closed up the walls of the church recently built to ward off evil spirits and for protection. On Memorial Day St. Romanus, the archbishop of Rouen was given the right to release a prisoner at that coffin containing the holy relics were taken to the parade.

3. Gargoyle usually used in medieval buildings, but through the ages the significance of an art form Gutters has been deviating.In ancient Egyptian architecture, gargoyle with small changes, characterized by features in the form of a lion head.

Similarly, gutters muzzle saw lions on the Greek temple, carving or molding, marble or terracotta statues of burrs cymatium / cornice. One example of that is the first gutter 39 lions exist in the Zeus temple. 102 original gargoyle or gutters, but too heavy (because they are carved from marble), many gargoyle was broken and replaced.

Many medieval cathedral with gargoyles and chimera both. The most famous example is the Notre Dame de Paris. Although most bizarre features, the gargoyle has all the idols of the type. Some gargoyles were depicted as monks, or as a combination of real organisms to humans, a variety of form of humor.

The mix of unusual animal shapes, or chimeric, not assume the function as a gutter create compatibility to grotesque. We only decorative function, but today still called the gargoyle. Both the gutters or decorative ornament protruding from the roof in the row railing, wall to bring rain down from the existing building until the early 18th century.

Since then, more than the building uses the water pipe from the roof gutters flowing into the ground and only a handful of buildings used gargoyle.

4. Gargoyle used in the Catholic church by two utilities throughout the historical period. The main function is used to convey the idea that the devil / evil through gargoyles form, they are particularly useful in the transmission of the stern message to the people, mostly illiterate and illiterate.

Gargoyle also that capable driving out demons / evil away from the church, itself kept the demons outside the church walls.Egyptians, Greeks, Etruscans and ancient Romans were using gutter animal shapes.

During the 12th century, the church gargoyle appeared in Europe, Roman has flourished and transformed according to the new residents. Much of that time, the inhabitants are illiterate and illiterate, so using imagery to convey the idea is very important.

While many creatures have mythological features, characteristics of humans are sometimes assigned to specific organisms - such as animals personified. However, some medieval monks that gargoyle as a form of idolatry.

In the 12th century, St. Bernard of Clairvaux also spoke opposed the gargoyle.