When do we start finding images of St. Lawrence actually being roasted, of
St. Erasmus having his guts wound out, etc?
What about the female saints who carry, not the instruments of torture, but
the mutilated body parts - St. Lucy her eyes, St. Agatha (?) her breasts?
Do we ever find images of St. Agatha (if she is the right one) having her
breasts cut off?
Hanging on the wall at MNaC, a wonderful art museum on Montjuic in
Barcelona, there is a little wooden statue of St. Llucia de Mur (c. 1300)
having her (very large) breasts cut off. There seemed to be a fascination
on the part of the artist with the humiliation of the saint and her pain,
given the horrified expression on the face of the saint. It was quite
disturbing.
Kristen Pederson
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