Statue of a Griffin at St. Mark's

Ruskin uses this griffin as an example of the grotesque and the grotesque imagination, a topic he takes up in the fourth volume of Modern Painters and The Stones of Venice. He also includes a drawing of the griffin in one of his works.

Photograph by George P. Landow, © October 2000. It may be used for any scholarly or educational purpose without permission as long as credit is given.