Yves Le Marseillais
Knees
Hello Firemaiden,
Yes I did knows too this pictures.
Note also faces on knees that reminds us that Devil is "everywhere" and I suppose that knees have a particular signification in this matter;
No hasard soo.
Salutation from Marseille City France Old €urope
YLM
Has anyone ever considered that the source for the Marseille devil with his tummy face and knee faces, etc, could be found in the famous sixteen century illustration by John White of a Pictish man - member of the "savage" Celtic tribe of the Picts in Great Britain ?
The watercolours of John White, colonist and artist (1540-1593), were later copied into engraving by Theodor Bry (1528-1598) and published in "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia " by Thomas Hariot (1560-1621) -- which can be read in it's online edition here :electronic edition.
The point of including the Picts in a document observing the way of life of a native tribe in "Virginia", was to point out that Europeans too, had had their "savages".
Hello Firemaiden,
Yes I did knows too this pictures.
Note also faces on knees that reminds us that Devil is "everywhere" and I suppose that knees have a particular signification in this matter;
No hasard soo.
Salutation from Marseille City France Old €urope
YLM