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Thread #121939   Message #2676407
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
10-Jul-09 - 06:01 AM
Thread Name: The re-Imagined Village
Subject: RE: The re-Imagined Village
Nice to see Norwich Foliate Head Boss East Cloister M5, aka Golden Boy, in his pre-nose job days when he more than the look of Michael Jackson about him. I think this picture comes from E. C. Le Grice's Norwich Cathedral - Its Interest and Beauty (1945) published before the term Green Man had caught on, instead we find the rather wonderful heads-with-leaves. It also features on the cover of H.D. Molesworth's Sculpture in England - Medieval (British Council, 1959) in which it is simply called a foliate head.

Here's a video still I took a few years back showing his nose job: Golden Boy, May 2006.

For the complete video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKDKbtYeVBM