SOME NON-EXHIBITIONIST ENTERTAINERS


A little troupe, La Chaize-le-Vicomte (Vendée)

 

Uncastillo (Zaragoza)

 

Aulnay (Charente)

 


photo by Michael Adlem

Acrobatic tongue-sticker, Saint-Gaultier (Indre)

 

Contortionist, Châteauneuf-sur-Charente (Charente)

 

Acrobat or Dancer, Kilpeck (Herefordshire)

 



Dancer and rebec-player, Saint-Hilaire-La-Croix (Puy-de-Dôme)

 

Dancer, Chateauneuf-sur-Charente (Charente).

 

Salome, St-Martin-du-Canigou (Pyrénées-Orientales)

Lintel of the tympanum of the cathedral of Berceto (Parma), with ithyphallic bear playing the harp.



Detail of a pulpit at Gropina (Lazio), which depicts an unsexed acrobatic Luxuria
and a matching two-tailed mermaid with luxuriant hair.

These two figures also echo pre-Romanesque images of Earth and Sea.




Bosch: detail from
The Garden of Earthly Delights, circa 1500.