> From: Christopher Crockett [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> but, it does seem rather inescapable that these (often quite extensive
> and complex) iconographic programs, deliberately placed at considerable
> expense in public, secular spaces, were, at the very least in part,
> pedigogical in intent.
>
Were they always interpreted correctly, though? If a scene was based
on oral tradition that was lost, wouldn't a new tale have been invented?
Also, sometimes older pieces of sculpture, with new interpretation,
was added to a new structure when it was built.
Francine Nicholson
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