There's a nice high-relief, in wood, bty Diego de Siloe, c. AD l492, at
the Cartuja de Miraflores in Spain: there Santiago (with a proper
cockleshell on his hat) is of course next to Christ; but on the table is a
roast suckling pig, a favorite Spanish dish. -And these people were JEWS!
Pardon Tillinghast
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Gill wrote:
> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:08:48 +0100 (BST)
> From: M.C. Gill <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: New (old) member: Elena Lemeneva
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> Dear Elena,
> Your query reminds me of several fifteenth-century English depictions
> of the Last Supper, such as that in the Hours of Elizabeth the Queen
> (if I remember correctly) and the glass at Great Malvern, in which
> fish is prominently displayed on the dining table and where Judas is
> shown stealing a fish and hiding it under the table (this was also
> shown in stained glass at Peterborough, now lost). This imagery is
> usually explained in two ways; firstly (anachronistically|) that Good Friday was a 'fast
> day', so the disciples ate fish; secondly that Judas stealing the
> fish recalls the comment in John's Gospel that he was a thief and
> pre-figures his betrayal of Christ.
>
> Perhaps other listmembers have come across similar images or
> discussion.
>
> Best Wishes
>
> Miriam Gill
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