medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Monday, December 20, 2010, at 5:34 pm, Genevra Kornbluth wrote:
> On 12/20/2010 4:49 PM, John Dillon wrote:
> >My reading of the creatures on the capitals at lower left here
> >http://tinyurl.com/yzuqw9u
> >is about the same as yours (in addition to being perversions of
> angels, though, I would also suggest perversions of evangelists). And
> those on the right seem to figure _Mischwesen_ as well (e.g. the
> middle capital has what looks to be a siren).
> While the figures might have negative connotations on this portal,
> zoanthropomorphic evangelists/evangelist symbols have a long visual
> history of quite positive representation. See e.g. a twelfth-century
> situla, third row on
> http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/EleventhTwelfth5.html
> Best,
> Genevra
>
Quite right. As soon as I hit SEND I thought of the full-page apostle illuminations in various Breton gospels, e.g. this Mark in the ninth-century Landévennec Gospels (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. D. 2. 16, fol. 71v):
http://tinyurl.com/3bqpjo
Best again,
John Dillon
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