Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: Some Facts and Some Conjectures about Gargoyles 6 HUMAN GARGOYLES 46 ANIMAL GARGOYLES 80 GROTESQUE GARGOYLES 100 Notes 126 Gargoyle Sites to Visit 130 Acknowledgements 133 Selected Bibliography 134 Index 136

About the Author

Janetta Rebold Benton is a professor of art history at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, and a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. A specialist in medieval art, Professor Benton has published several books and articles on medieval and Renaissance topics and has lectured in the United States and Europe. She has been studying and photographing gargoyles for over a decade.