TY - JOUR
TI - Sacred or Scandalous?: How to Approach Depictions of Genitals in Medieval Art
AU - van Welie-Vink, Wendelien A.W.
TI - Sacred or Scandalous?: How to Approach Depictions of Genitals in Medieval Art
AB - Miniatures depicting the Wounds of Christ figure in many medieval manuscripts. These fascinating images look weird and alienating, without the body they were inflicted on. They also invoke the feeling we are looking at something scabrous because of their similarity to a vulva. It is uncomfortable: these miniatures depict a sacred matter, the Wounds of Christ. There shouldn’t be an association with something vulgar. Is this strange resemblance maybe a product of a dirty mind. The article attempts to answer the question: How should one approach depictions of the Wounds of Christ in medieval art? Are such depictions sacred, or scandalous?
VL - 2024
IS - Tom 15 (2024)/2
PY - 2024
SN - 2081-3309
C1 - 2391-6001
SP - 96
EP - 114
DO - 10.4467/23916001HG.24.023.20450
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-historica-gedanensia/artykul/sacred-or-scandalous-how-to-approach-depictions-of-genitals-in-medieval-art
KW - Wound of Christ
KW - Book of Hours
KW - Medieval Art