Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval ChurchesB.T. Batsford, 1986 - 166 pages |
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Page 72
... Luxuria is rarely displayed as an aged , grotesque female , but one is to be found at Cambes , where a toothy pockmarked hag leers down from a corbel above the doorway , and another at Foussais , where she matches a toad on the opposite ...
... Luxuria is rarely displayed as an aged , grotesque female , but one is to be found at Cambes , where a toothy pockmarked hag leers down from a corbel above the doorway , and another at Foussais , where she matches a toad on the opposite ...
Page 75
... Luxuria in manuscripts . We find , instead , for instance , bedded couples , as on the British Museum's copy of the Silos Beatus ( Williams 1977 ) , just as one finds them in later Gothic carvings at Amiens or Chartres . In the ...
... Luxuria in manuscripts . We find , instead , for instance , bedded couples , as on the British Museum's copy of the Silos Beatus ( Williams 1977 ) , just as one finds them in later Gothic carvings at Amiens or Chartres . In the ...
Page 76
... Luxuria is commonly feminine , Avaritia commonly masculine , but there are exceptions . At Dinan the roles are reversed ; at Migron and Saint - Fort - sur - Gironde , Greed or Avarice are represented by women ; and on the fine façade of ...
... Luxuria is commonly feminine , Avaritia commonly masculine , but there are exceptions . At Dinan the roles are reversed ; at Migron and Saint - Fort - sur - Gironde , Greed or Avarice are represented by women ; and on the fine façade of ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Ugly as sin | 23 |
The Romanesque background | 31 |
Copyright | |
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