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Different interpretations of one subject in medieval Christian art (pulling the beard)

Vostok/Oriens '2016, №6

 
The article deals with the problem of interpretation of the scenes where one person pulls the beard of another one or two persons pull the beard each other. These scenes were relatively widespread throughout Western Europe, the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, and Albania between the sixth and twelfth centuries. The authors identified some scenes as “Joseph’s dream”, an illustration to an apocryphal episode of “Acts of John”.

Keywords: Romanesque art, Caucasus, Abkhazia, Albania, Western Europe, architectural decoration, stone reliefs, frescoes, beard, crypt, church, iconography, medieval art

Pages: С. 90–97