medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On 10/10/11, Christopher Crockett wrote:
> From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Xanten's present cathedral of St. Victor was begun in 1190. Prior to
> February 1945 most of it was of the later thirteenth to early sixteenth
> centuries...
>
> > Clerestory sculptures ("romanesque"):
>
> > http://tinyurl.com/3fojatj
>
>
> always a rather sticky issue, this question of how and when to apply this
> thoroughly modren construct "romanesque" (and its corresponding
> anti-construct, "Gothic"), but i'd say that there is nothing whatever which
> can be said to be "romanesque" in those figures --esp. the lady on the left.
>
Quite right. I had completely misremembered these when I came to characterize them for that post. My mental picture of a siren in this set was nothing at all like the figure shown at right here (with her "Gothic" sway):
ttp://tinyurl.com/3nbvh3v
--JD
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