MONK #1: the saint Mary Magdalene
what was she made of, chiefly?
MONK #2: hair
more hair than woman, they said of her
MONK #1: saints in general
how do they look?
how does one draw them, I mean
MONK #2: silver-grey skin like a trout
and mummy hands
that’s the sign of one beloved by God
MONK #1: what would you look like, if the Lord entrusted you with the Keys of Heaven
MONK #2: furious
MONK #1: thank you!!
MONK #1: this is so ridiculous
MONK #2: what is it
MONK #1: aaaghh no it’s so embarrassing
like
i should KNOW this
MONK #2: its fine
there are no bad questions in monks
MONK #1: so if you were going to try to communicate, like, praying
how would you depict that, art-wise
MONK #2: trying to stretch your arms wider than Jesus
like two big pterodactyls fighting
MONK #1: ahhh of course
haha thank you i feel so stupid
MONK #2: no its fine
dont worry about it
MONK #1: what was the birth of Jesus like
MONK #2: gold box
bunch of rocks
small roof, no walls, sad Joseph, curious twins
pretty basic
MONK #1: ahh tytyty
MONK #1: Jesus’ head, did it end in a neck, or…?
MONK #2: no
MONK #1: what does baptism look like
MONK #2: mm
a goose is near
two very small women in a bowl
thats pretty much it
MONK #1: how best to depict the suffering of the Crucifixion
MONK #2: Jesus with one shoe off, one shoe on
MONK #1: how best to represent the inspiration of the saints as they wrote Holy Writ
MONK #2: small cow in the sky
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The picture at the top: two monks invent regicide?
The only thing I can think of when I look at that one-shoe-off is that in 18th century art, one lost shoe was sometimes used to symbolise lost virginity (see: lady with shoe flying off in The Swing).
Anna: Well, there's the corporate workshop program.
Geoffrey: That sounds intriguing. What is that?
Richard: We teach people to develop leadership skills by analyzing key characters in Shakespeare.
You could look at Claudius's Crisis Management techniques, for instance.
Geoffrey: That's ridiculous. I'll do that.
After Jesus headed back up to heaven, her legend says that she became a hermit/aesthetic in France. She was clothed only in her hair. There's a great wooden sculpture of her by by Donatello that makes me cry, showing her as an old woman, battered by harsh weather, and clothed only in her hair.
Aww, I was so convinced that was a papal bull.
It's an ox, the symbol of St. Luke
it actually says on the image – St Lucas.
a game of "one potato, two potato" in Ireland in 1850 would've just gone
– no potatoes
– death
Yup. The form of prayer with hands pressed palm to palm is a reflection of the posture taken by a feudal vassal when pledging fealty to his lord. The lord then presses palms to the outside of the vassal's hands to accept the pledge.
Incredibly, here it is February 2016 and I have only just now discovered "Two Monks" and this Mallory person. The freshest, most insane and hilarious lovely thing that I could never have imagined. Thank you!
The really funny part is that St Lucas, with the small cow, is in the middle of erasing whatever he's just written. I wish I could make it out.
Pretty sure it's a depiction of Adam and Eve being baptized, probably by Saint John the Baptist on the right; no idea who on the left, some important Medieval guy, I assume. The Holy Spirit is descending from above in its alternate dove form of a goose.
I don't think these guys got out much…
The priest who did our Anglican confirmation classes also said that about how one used to pray, standing upright with arms wide; but that it changed to kneeling, head bowed, hands together in front, to signify being in chains and humbled before God.
I suppose that works with the feudal hierarchy as well; honestly, though, I think it the more likely explanation, because really, how often was your lord likely to be praying over you/with you?