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‘By the Grace of God, a Guardian Angel wrests the soul of a man from the world and the devil’

12/14/2009

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From the pages of Vidimus comes this intriguing little roundel.  The theology of it (salvation comes through belief and grace, not via indulgences and priests) would have been quite radical in its day.  But I love the literal tug of war and the hermaphroditic devil!  (Though we can't see its genitals, I'm assuming from the prominent breasts that the artist was following in the tradition of depicting the devil as a hermaphrodite.  There's a similar depiction in the painted ceilings of the John Knox House in Edinburgh.)

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Morbid Old Glass - Paris

5/22/2009

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The panels that started my fascination with monstrous (old) stained glass......  From the small museum in Ste. Etienne du Mont, behind the Pantheon.  Not the best snaps in the world -- if anyone has any better, let me know!

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Crazy mad old glass!

5/10/2009

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So, you think of old stained glass & you think of proper saints, right?  WRONG! There was some mad stuff made.  I intend to keep a compendium of bizarre old glass -- the more lurid and morbid the better!

First up is this odd wee roundel in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow.  St. Notkur Balbulous beating the devil, who came to tempt him while in the form of a dog.  How exactly the devil, especially in that pose, was tempting the saint, is not explained.

The saint's robes are stunningly black -- but look at that lurid devil dog!  A contorted pose and unlikely anatomy. Green enamels painted on the back and blue and silver stained spots on the front give a subtle parallax shift.


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