ABSTRACT
I would like to begin with a detail: Christ on the cross flanked by four saints (fig. 19). directly above is a band of decoration with the Man of Sorrows, Mary and John in quatrefoils, together forming a Deësis. But between Christ and his loved ones are two round, grimacing faces, painted in grisaille like stone masks – the one to Christ’s proper right twisted and squinting, one eye open, one closed, like a grotesque parody of a god somehow dead and alive.
