Drollery
A drolerie (French: drôle , droll / comical / funny) in medieval art is a crude, funny, grotesquely exaggerated representation of people, mythical creatures and animals.
Visual arts
Drolleries can be found both in book illumination and in plastic art. On paper, drolleries were a kind of medieval caricature . Today's best-known drolleries can be found in Gothic churches , where they often function as gargoyles on the edge of the roof or do mischief in the misericords of choir stalls . Drolleries executed as half-sculptures are also referred to as mascarons (grimacing heads).
The German designation for such figures is Blecker (those are those who bare something, especially their backside) and Zanner (those are those who bar their teeth or make faces).
literature
The term drolerie is occasionally used for literary grotesque forms ( nonsense poems , fatrasias, etc.).
See also
literature
- Katharina Bornkessel: The drolleries of the choir screen paintings of the Cologne cathedral (research on the Cologne cathedral, volume 4). 2 volumes, Verlag Kölner Dom, Cologne 2019.
- Ulrich Conrads : Demons and drolleries on Romanesque and Gothic church buildings in France. A contribution to the characteristics of two areas of medieval sculpture Dissertation at the University of Marburg in 1950.
- Hermann Jung: Foolish folk art. Drolleries and fools on the Lower Rhine choir stalls. Duisburg 1970
- Katrin Kröll, Hugo Steger (ed.): My whole body is a face: grotesque representations in European art and literature of the Middle Ages. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, ISBN 3-7930-9097-3 . In it: Katrin Kröll: My whole body is my face. The comedy of the grotesque body in Christian imagery of the Middle Ages. Pp. 11-105
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DWB Vol. 2, Col. 88. See also the carnival figure of Buchener Blecker
- ↑ DWB Vol. 31, Col. 257
- ↑ Christa Unzner-Fischer: It was dark, the moon shone bright . Amazing drolleries. Altberliner Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-357-00147-0