Explore: Foliate Head (sculpture)

The Green Man, also known as a foliate head, is a motif in architecture and art, of a face made of, or completely surrounded by, foliage, which normally

Raglan, wrote an article in the journal Folklore that connected the foliate head artistic motif of medieval church architecture (which she also called

The city has several Victorian Green Man (or foliate heads) sculptures which consist of unusual human heads, carved of stone with vegetation growing out

but the "projecting acanthus leaves resemble the much freer naturalistic foliate ornament in French Gothic cathedrals". There is a similar blending of influences

of six sakhas (bands). The first three inner bands display leaf motifs, foliate scrolls interwoven with birds, and a twisted twisted garland respectively

Viking Age art of the Urnes style (arising before 1050), where tendrils of foliate designs intertwine with the stylized animals. The full-flowering of Northern

tower has a panelled door to ground floor with a pointed arch-head of 4 orders with foliate capitals to jamb-shafts. There is a similar 2-order door in

the largest sites with sculptured monuments on the Pacific coastal plain. Olmec-style sculptures include a possible colossal head, petroglyphs and others

the plaques, other sculptures in brass or bronze include portrait heads, jewellery, and smaller pieces. Some of the dramatic sculptures date to the fourteenth

whole of India". It has three main zones, the innermost "an intricate foliated arabesque pattern" with a thin vine stem undulating up it. Next comes a