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Dear Carlos, The best expert of medieval views and representations of Judas is our member Peter Dinzelbacher who deals with the Judas nimbus in his _Judastraditionen_, Wien: Selbstverlag des O"sterreichischen Museums fu"r Volkskunde, 1977 (= Raabser Ma"rchen-Reihe, 2), p.29. Judging from Dinzelbacher's discussion and from my own less extensive experience, there was no uniform convention depriving Judas of his nimbus. He was often, especially but not exclusively in early medieval times, represented with a normal nimbus (examples and further references are listed by Dinzelbacher in note 130), although it is true that you can probably find more examples where he appears without a nimbus or -- especially in Byzantine and Italian art -- with a distinctive black nimbus. A sort of compromise was found for a play in Oberammergau in 1662 where his nimbus is taken away by an angel during the last supper. Yours, Otfried ------------------------------------------------------------- Otfried Lieberknecht ([log in to unmask], http://www.lieberknecht.de) D-12163 Berlin, Schoeneberger Str. 11, tel. ++49 +30 8516675 ------------------------------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%