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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 ...
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 .
Wild men support coats of arms in the side panels of a portrait by Albrecht Dürer, 1499 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).. The wild man, wild man of the woods, woodwose or wodewose is a mythical figure and motif that appears in the art and literature of medieval Europe, comparable to the satyr or faun type in classical mythology and to Silvanus, the Roman god of the woodlands.
Strobilomyces strobilaceus, also called Strobilomyces floccopus and commonly known as old man of the woods, [1] is a species of fungus in the family Boletaceae. It is native to Europe and North America. Fruit bodies are characterized by very soft dark grey to black pyramidal and overlapping scales on the cap surface.
For generations, the visage of a stony-faced man watched over New Hampshire's Franconia Notch State Park from the cliffside. The human profile carved by Mother Nature into the unique rock ...
The third old lady says Jack is close to the Green Man of Knowledge's castle, and warns him that the bridge leading to the castle is a trap, since it turns into a spider's web, so he must secure the help of the Green Man's youngest daughter, the most powerful of the three, by stealing the her garments when she becomes a white bird to bathe in ...
Pedro González, painting c. 1580 (Ambras Collection) Petrus Gonsalvus (Spanish: Pedro González; c. 1537, Tenerife – c. 1618, Capodimonte), referred to by Ulisse Aldrovandi as "the man of the woods", [1] was a gentleman in the court of Henry II of France.