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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Hi, Henk On Wednesday, October 3, 2007, at 3:53 am, you wrote: > That's just it. Bavo in his iconography is said to be dressed as a nobleman, > but not necessarily in armour, and often wearing a falcon on his > wrist. For > instance on the Sforza-triptych (Rogier van der Weyden, ca 1450-60) in > Bruxelles. What you see here is a knight in ca 1480 German armour, > wearing a > loose tabard over it and a wreath or bourrelet-type headdress and > carrying a > book in leather cover in his right and the remains of a staff in his left > hand. If he had carried a falcon it would have been on his left wrist > and > the hand would have been clad in a leather glove with a broad wristcover. As you say, Bavo is often portrayed with a falcon on his wrist, as in these well known examples by Bosch: http://tinyurl.com/2klu6z and by Geertgen tot Sint Jans: http://www.chinaoilpainting.com/htmlimg/image-29203.htm But he isn't always. Here, for example, he has a book and a staff but is not portrayed as a knight and has no falcon: http://tinyurl.com/yt25j9 Expanded image: http://www.kikirpa.be/image/A/4/6/a46081_std.jpg Does portrayal as a knight _require_ the presence of a falcon? Might this not be an image of a knight who has given up worldly pursuits (the falcon) for religion (the book)? If you wish to know the basis for the attribution, you'll probably have to ask the Met. Best again, John Dillon PS: For a modern instance of working in virtually _all_ the attributes (with the position of the sword perhaps recalling the staff), see his statue here: http://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/view.jsp?content=366 Expanded image: http://tinyurl.com/289suk ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html