Subject: | | Re: Bernini, ecclesia, and eros |
From: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask] |
Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 09 Mar 2000 20:18:17 -0500 (EST)594_us-ascii Someone mentioned that these figures have odd tonsures. Since the precise nature of the celtic tonsure seems still to be very much an issue in some circles, are any of the photos good enough to tell us what the tonsures look like? meg
> I can't think of any other flashing clerics, but there are a few male > Sheelas, or rather Sean-na-gigs: at Ballycloghduff in West Meath on > the gatepost of an old mill, at Grey Abbey in Co Down, and at Margam > in Wales. To my knowledge, the literature has largely ignored these > male figures. [...]44_09Mar200020:18:17-0500(EST)[log in to unmask] |
Date: | | Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:46:02 EST |
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In a message dated 03/29/2000 11:33:35 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
<< The problem I see with locating Bernini's sculpture of St. Teresa in
Ecstacy in a church isn't it's overtly erotic character but with its
theatricality. Thanks to the discussion here I see it IS theater, even to
a scupted audience! >>
Earlier, when I agreed that the work was too erotic for a church, this is
what I had in mind. If you concentrate on the center of the work (angel? and
Theresa), the presentation is certainly erotic but at the time mystical, and
thus acceptable in a church setting. But when you pan back and catch the
whole, the profanity of it all is rather glaring. Is this a church or a
glorified peep show?
mark
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