medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> On 24/02/2012 2:38 AM, Jon Cannon wrote:
>...as far as I can see at a cursory inspection they are iconographically
quite different: Samson is certainly astride the lion, but he's still
forcing its jaws open: he's still in combat with it. Plus, he's
clothed. My figure is naked and is plainly riding, not fighting,
indeed he appears to be enjoying his time aboard the rearing beast.
>Good lead though, and I will enquire further for more rider-ly naked
C12 Samsons.
kinky.
ordinarily, a good place to start on suchlike iconographic quests might be the
Index of Christian Art at Princeton
http://ica.princeton.edu/
however, my cursory search of the DB for "Samson"
http://ica1.princeton.edu/F/T78LPIN8FA5FBRNMPSU6SVX6BAEPNYSATXBL5FB2L4UCUUTSIS-18984?func=find-b&find_code=WSUB&request=samson&local_base=&adjacent=N
was exceptionally desultory.
a well-motivated Questor will certainly have better luck.
say, now that i think on it, what makes you think that you've got Samson
there, rather than, say, just some kinky Brit Dude with an idiosyncratic Letch
for riding Lions through the foliage in the Alltogether?
c
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