Polska Akademia Umieje̜tności <Krakau> / Komisja Historii Sztuki [Hrsg.]; Polska Akademia Nauk <Warschau> / Oddział <Krakau> / Komisja Teorii i Historii Sztuki [Hrsg.]: Folia Historiae Artium (24.1988)

part of a new typological cycle oin the cathedral
of Senliis ([...] Thiis 'typological programme of the
Senlis jamfo figur es is repeated at Mantes at
about 1180, at laibout 1200 ii!t appears at Laon, be-
fore 1210 on the nortih transept of Chartres (PI.
XIX, 2), and in the second decade of the thirteenth
eentnry at Reims aind at St. Yved, Braisne.” The-
re iis however one import aint differenee betweein
the Moses of York and the French examples,
sińce in York the winged serpent is wound about
the relatiyely short rod held by the patriareh in
his right hand, whereas in Chartres it tops a slim
polygonal coluimn set aside, and at Senlis it stood
originally om a sąuare post (now loist). From this
it seemis elear that the York Moses does inot fol-
loiw the French examples in holding the brazen
serpent as his second attribute, but the rod/snake
of the Mount Horeb episode 5 6.

The identification of; the crowned youth
fighting the lion on one of the keystones from
Keynsham Abbey (N° 163c) as Samson seems qu-
est:omalble. The oman we ars a long robę and a
cloak throwin over one shoulder. Astride the lion
he wrench.es cpen its jaws with both hands. His
left hand, which gra:sps the lower jaw of the
aniimal, suggestis at first sight the head of a dag-
ger thruisit intO' its breast. .(On closer examination
there was no eviden.ee for this, but the hand,
mairked with spots of imortar, needs to be cle-
aned). Is it really Samson, about whom Scripture
informs us (Judges, XIV, 6): ”And behold, a young
lion roared against him; and the Spirit of the
Lord icame mightily upon him, and he tarę the
lion asunder as one tears a kid; and he had noth-
ing in his hand”? Or is it David, who says to
Saul (1 Samuel, XVII, 34—35): ”And David said
unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep,
and the-re came a lion, and a be ar, and took a
lamib out of the flock: And I weint out after
him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his
mouth: and when he arose against me, I eaught
him by hi!s beard, and smote him, and siew him”?

Turning to the New Testament iconography,
a thorough analysis must be given to the Virgin
and Child tympanum i(red sandstoine of local ori-
gin) from St Mary’s Church in Fownhope, Here-
fordshire, c. 1140 (N° 138). It presents a Nikopoia

2. Moses, c. 1180—1185. York, The Yorkshire Museum

with Christ holding a long unrofled soroll in his
left hand (Fig. 3). The catalogue sees a mandorla-
-liike fo'.rm behiind the Virgin as the baok of the

5 W. Sauerlander, Sens and York. An inąuiry of the Law in his left hand and a rod, but without ser-

into the sculptures from St. Mary’s Abbey in the York- pent, in his right hand, is to be seen in the north sta-

shire Museum (The Journal of the British Archaeologi- ined glass rosę at Notre Damę in Paris, 13th century. See

cal Association, third series, XXII (1959)), pp. 53—69, PI. H. S c h 1 o s s e r, Moses [in:] Lexikon der christlichen

XVIII, 3. Ikonographie, III, Rom-Freiburg-Basel-Wien [1971], cols,

6 Moses seated on a large throne, holding the Tables 284—285, Fig. A3.

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