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Could it be a torch? - in view of the fact that both Judas's betrayal and Peter's took place by torchlight
Maddy
Madeleine Gray PhD, FRHistS, FSA
Professor of Ecclesiastical History/Athro Hanes Eglwysig
School of Humanities and Social Sciences /Ysgol Ddyniaethau a Gwyddoniaethau Cymdeithasol
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'Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall!'
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I too was immediately reminded of the grill normally shown with Lawrence (more examples: http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/SaintLawrence.html ), and the red looks like fire, but that made little sense in context. I am used to seeing the brazier depicted as something that sits on the ground, as on the BM Passion Plaques (http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/p/panel_from_an_ivory_casket_ch.aspx ). Now I think that braziers must have taken more forms than I knew.
Many thanks!
Genevra
On 3/8/2015 3:19 PM, richard legault wrote:
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Gordon's idea of a brazier is better than mine. This provides symmetry in depicting two betrayals of Jesus on either side of the cross. On the left there is Judas kissing Jesus accompanied by the image of pieces of silver and on the right, Peter's denial of Jesus to the servant girl, accompanied by the brazier (a fire they had kindled in the hall). See Luke 22:54-57 (KJV)<https://www.biblegateway..com/passage/?search=luke%2022:54-22:57&version=KJV>.
Rick
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Gordon Plumb <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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Genevra
I think it is a brazier with a fair in it - Peter was, according to the gospe4ls warming himself at the fire when approached for by one those accusing him of being with Jesus.
Gordon
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I
am currently indexing a batch of my photographs from Warsaw, and need
help
identifying an object in a Man of Sorrows image.
The painting is online
here
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wroc%C5%82aw_Christ_as_Man_of_Sorrows.jpg
though
I hope that my photos are clearer. In the upper corner, just to
the left of
Peter's denial, is an object that looks like a grill on a
handle, with red
somethings emerging from it. Any ideas what it might
be?
Thanks!
Genevra
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