BODY LANGUAGE

Saints walking around headless, vagina-shaped wounds and a Jesus being crushed like a grape: welcome to medieval mans intriguing pe rception of the world. Thanks to a growing fixation on the body and body parts, some of the works of art created in the late Middle Ages meet with amazement and sometimes incomprehension today. How should we, from our position in the present, look at these works o f art from so long ago? 'Body Language' introduces you to the role of the body in devotion in the late Middle Ages (1300-1500) and t o the surp...[Read more]