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A slightly earlier sculpted example can be found on the trumeau of the St Anne Portal, the right-hand portal on the west facade of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, where St Marcellus jabs his crozier into a dragon's mouth (the original is now in the Cluny Museum, and a 19th-century copy is in place on the portal). There may be two components to this sort of image. One is Christ treading on the lion and dragon,
referring to Psalm 90. The other is the Psychomachia of Prudentius, in which images of virtues battling vices came to depict them as the standing virtue spearing the defeated figure of vice below. I'd certainly be interested in further perspectives on this.
Cheers,
Jim
On 04/11/2011 11:46 AM, Genevra Kornbluth wrote:
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> On 11/4/2011 12:20 PM, Cormack, Margaret Jean wrote:
>> What is the hand behind the pillar and dragon in the last pictures? Is there a head as well?
> My photos don't show the answer, but there is a nice image on Wikimedia Commons that does:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yorkminsterwalterdegraytombvertical.jpg>
>> Can you (or other list members) comment on
how common it is for a saint to be portrayed treading on a dragon, and when the motif starts to appear?
> I don't know, and would be interested in the answer as well!
> Genevra
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