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A foliate head in the shape of an acanthus leaf: a corbel supporting the Bamberg Horseman, Bamberg Cathedral, Germany, early 13th century. The Green Man, also known as a foliate head, [1] is a motif in architecture and art, of a face made of, or completely surrounded by, foliage, which normally spreads out from the centre of the face. [2]
The Green Man, Charlie No-Face Raymond Theodore Robinson (October 29, 1910 – June 11, 1985) was a disfigured American man whose years of nighttime walks made him into a figure of urban legend in western Pennsylvania .
The Green Man image made a resurgence in modern times, with artists from around the world interweaving the imagery into various modes of work. [10] English artist Paul Sivell created the Whitefield Green Man, a wood carving in a dead section of a living oak tree; David Eveleigh, an English garden designer created the Penpont Green Man Millennium Maze, in Powys, Wales ( as of 2006 the largest ...
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The original video has more than 12.6M views as of Friday afternoon, and even celebrities like Mark Ruffalo, Chrissy Tiegen and Patton Oswalt have tweeted about Green Shirt Guy. #GreenShirtGuy is ...
An earlier reference to the dubious nature of the name is made by H. C. Lawlor in an article in Man Vol. 31, January 1931 (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland), in which he writes, "The term 'sheela-na-gig' has no etymological meaning and is an absurd name." Andersen, Weir and Jerman, and Freitag all dismiss the name as ...
The Green Man at the Custard Factory, Birmingham, England [1]. Toin Adams, born in Kitwe, Zambia, is a sculptor working in steel, acrylic, fibreglass and other media. She spent her early childhood in eastern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and late teen years, in South Africa, where she attended the National School of the Arts, Johannesburg.
A Tennessee man has a rare disorder that causes faces to appear distorted in shape, size, texture or color. To him, images show, they look demonic. Rare disorder causes man to see 'demonic' faces