Girona (Gerona) Lleida, Spain.


A bishop looks on (?) while scuilptors work.


On a pulpit at Minturno (Lazio, Italy)
an ecclesiastic apparently looks on while a sinner is devoured by a hellish beast.


On the other side of the pulpit another beast swallows another sinner.
Pulpits are a feature in Romanesque Italy. An acrobatic, unsexed Luxuria is depicted on a pulpit at
Gropina, also in Lazio.


Minturno photos by Martin M. Miles.


On a corbel at Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val (Tarn-et-Garonne).
a hellish beast's head is upside down, and the Rich and Lascivious Woman is descending feet-first,
revealing a large circular vulva as she does so.


Detail of the pulpit at Gropina (Lazio), which also shows a matching two-tailed mermaid
with luxuriant hair.

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