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.