What is this grammar structure, adding a noun after the verb "stand" [duplicate]

I have been reading The Dark Elf trilogy and one sentence got my attention, and I don't know what grammar structure is behind the sentence which justifies its grammatical correctness.

The sentence is:

"Where, in ages past, there had been an empty cavern of roughly shaped stalactites and stalagmites now stands artistry."

I do understand the meaning of "stands artistry" means the cavern now looks good, but I can't search other similar usage of adding a noun after the verb "stand".

Solution 1:

I think what's causing the confusion here is mistaking stands for a transitive verb, when in fact it is used intransitively here (a linking verb, perhaps). And the meaning is: to be placed or situated. The American Heritage Dictionary provides this usage of stand under the intransitive heading: The building stands at the corner, which could be rephrased as: At the corner stands the building. This is similar to your sentence [Verb+NP].

EDIT

Thanks to @Araucaria for suggesting a useful edit to the answer. Constructions such as this are examples of S-V inversion (precisely, locative inversion in this case.)

Per Wikipedia, An adjunct phrase is switched from its default postverbal position to a position preceding the verb, which causes the subject and the finite verb to invert. The fronted expression that evokes locative inversion is an adjunct of location.