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Article: Medieval faces.(Francois Villon)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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About 1460 the French writer Francois Villon penned his interpretation of how his mother might have responded to the decoration of the walls of her local church: "I'm just a poor old woman/Who knows nothing and can't read./On the walls of my parish church, I see/A paradise painted with harps and lutes/And a hell where they boil the damned./One gives me great fright, the other great bliss and joy." Murals were only one way the medieval church conveyed its teachings to an overwhelmingly illiterate population. Sculpture, too, did its part to enlighten through narrative cycles illustrating episodes from the Bible; representations of saints, the Virgin, Christ, the apostles, ...
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