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Queer Storytelling in Visual Media

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  • Statue of Wilgefortis at L’église St. Étienne de Beauvais
    wooden statue depicting Saint Wilgefortis on the cross
  • Volto Santo de Lucca
    8-foot tall wooden statue
  • Saint Sebastian
    An oil on canvas painting of Saint Sebastian
  • David
    Bronze sculpture of the Biblical narrative of David after he killed Goliath. A nude David stands with his foot on the head of the slain Goliath.
  • Christ and Saint John the Evangelist
    Polychromed and gilded oak sculpture of Saint John the Evangelist resting his head on the chest of Jesus Christ.
  • The Visitation
    Incomplete embroidery panel (cut and damage). The scene on the left depicts the Annunciation. The center scene depicts the Viitation. The right scene depicts an incomplete Nativity scene.
  • David and Jonathan
    This image is a leaf from La Somme le roi, a moral treatise written by Dominican Friar Laurent d'Orléans, and illustrated by many several secular illuminators. On the left: A crowned female figure stands on a dragon and holds a medallion as a dove. The inscription above, "Amistie," her labels her as "friendship." Beneath Friendship, David and Jonathan embrace over an inscription "David et Jonathas." On the right: Elias cringes away from a lamp below below an inscription "hely" (hatred). Below this, Saul is threatening to kill David, above an inscription "saul et david."