Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval ChurchesB.T. Batsford, 1986 - 166 pages |
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... display mermaids , but for Plate 22 Fuentidueña : mermaids in inland Spain . these we must seek some other explanation . Carved in wood on choir stalls and misericords as well as on stone , endowed with one or two tails , their ...
... display mermaids , but for Plate 22 Fuentidueña : mermaids in inland Spain . these we must seek some other explanation . Carved in wood on choir stalls and misericords as well as on stone , endowed with one or two tails , their ...
Page 100
... displays his anus ( see Fig . 12a ) . Male ( and female ) anal exhibitionists are another sub - theme of the Luxuria ... display , and the Mauriac examples , one at Santiago , another a b at Mens , and yet another at La Villedieu 100 ...
... displays his anus ( see Fig . 12a ) . Male ( and female ) anal exhibitionists are another sub - theme of the Luxuria ... display , and the Mauriac examples , one at Santiago , another a b at Mens , and yet another at La Villedieu 100 ...
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... display their sexual parts as they fall prey to monsters ( e.g. at Saint- Palais , Biota , Estella and Villanueva de Cangas ) , but since the organs are not dramatically exag- gerated the didactic message is not emphatically sexual . It ...
... display their sexual parts as they fall prey to monsters ( e.g. at Saint- Palais , Biota , Estella and Villanueva de Cangas ) , but since the organs are not dramatically exag- gerated the didactic message is not emphatically sexual . It ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Ugly as sin | 23 |
The Romanesque background | 31 |
Copyright | |
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