This one’s mostly straightforward. Early (for north of the Alps) Renaissance painting of St. Liphard, a legendary 6th century French churchman who slew a local dragon. I can understand fudging the bishop’s robes for something more recognizable, but I have no fuckin’ clue why Jean Bourdichon decided to paint the dragon as a pissed-off housecat on a leash rather than, y’know, dead. We will need someone with far more skill in relating the mindset of the average French painter circa 1500.
Really makes you think just how culturally biased wikipedia can be. Any other culture outside of Europe has a crazy story about monks slaying dragons, and wiki will pretext the story as mythology, or religious allegory. This article seems to adopt the position that France once had a Dragon problem…
Wikipedia reflects the editors. This page was made by 2 guys and a citation not. The type of people who bother to create a page about an obscure Catholic saint are usually Catholics themselves.
Meanwhile, the stories about far-off non-Western cultures are usually written by *philes (Japanophiles (aka weebs) write a lot of crap about Japan, for instance) or anthropologists. These are not the sort of people to actually believe in dragons.
This one’s mostly straightforward. Early (for north of the Alps) Renaissance painting of St. Liphard, a legendary 6th century French churchman who slew a local dragon. I can understand fudging the bishop’s robes for something more recognizable, but I have no fuckin’ clue why Jean Bourdichon decided to paint the dragon as a pissed-off housecat on a leash rather than, y’know, dead. We will need someone with far more skill in relating the mindset of the average French painter circa 1500.
I crack up at the idea of the catholic church to this day accepting that this guy did indeed defeat a dragon, and therefore indeed is a saint
Really makes you think just how culturally biased wikipedia can be. Any other culture outside of Europe has a crazy story about monks slaying dragons, and wiki will pretext the story as mythology, or religious allegory. This article seems to adopt the position that France once had a Dragon problem…
Wikipedia reflects the editors. This page was made by 2 guys and a citation not. The type of people who bother to create a page about an obscure Catholic saint are usually Catholics themselves.
Meanwhile, the stories about far-off non-Western cultures are usually written by *philes (Japanophiles (aka weebs) write a lot of crap about Japan, for instance) or anthropologists. These are not the sort of people to actually believe in dragons.
I guess he slew the dragon and tamed its offspring