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Guy Birchard

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Instruments and Objects in the Hands of Saints and Retainers

musical instruments, harps and autoharps,
guitars, mandolins, pipes and harmonium,
bells,
arrows, staves and banners, axes,
broadswords, lances, a flail/a scourge,
a bow and a bolt,
grapes, lilies, a sprig of forget-me-not,
a palm frond, fruit, a basket of roses,
infant's feet, lactating breasts, stigmata,
spouse's hand, weeping faces, astonishment,
the head of a baptist, the limbs of a martyr,
her own eyes, shoulders in embrace, shoulder
of a victim, own hands in prayer,
lambs, grails containing serpents, a dove,
a fish, the head of a snake,
rings, crowns, robes, a taper, worry
beads, walking sticks, keys, scales,
bindles, reins, basin of a baptist,
a box, a hat, spectacles, sieves,
shears,
a rock, Charlemagne's crystal,
scriptures, crucifix, a thorn tiara,
whole edifices and pretexts,
shrouds

 

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