SOME NON-EXHIBITIONIST
ENTERTAINERS
A little troupe, La Chaize-le-Vicomte (Vendée)
Uncastillo (Zaragoza)
Aulnay (Charente)
photo by Michael Adlem
Acrobatic tongue-sticker, Saubnt-Gaultier (Indre)
Contortionist, Châteauneuf-sur-Charente (Charente)
Acrobat or Dancer, Kilpeck (Herefordshire)
Dancer, Chateauneuf-sur-Charente (Charente).
Salome, St-Martin-du-Canigou (Pyrénées-Orientales)
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.