Ho visto questa foto pubblicizzata per un museo medievale irlandese. Sono contento che qualcuno abbia ottenuto la scena direttamente dalla Bibbia, dove Blonde Bob Jesus era avvolto in salsicce, nessuna circolazione alle gambe e due braccia bruciate dal sole, due angeli hanno discusso della sceneggiatura e due romani sembravano confusi.

Perfect summary. I applaud you. Mind you, that blond Roman on the right is a bad bastard with that spear.

I don’t think those are sausages. They’re clearly strawberry laces.

Angels look like characters from Fairly Odd Parents

While it’s always very stylised art, I wonder if it also shows just how little they understood about the Middle East. It was a story so far removed from their reality, it was like asking someone to paint a scene from another planet — you get abstract art and wild imagined scenes.

I’m not convinced the crucifixion made much sense to them when you look at how it’s portrayed, they seem to have often avoided the brutality of it and just glossed over it — lots of round crosses with nobody on them, very happy looking Jesus etc everything is abstract and highly stylised. It’s likely that the scene just didn’t land with the audience, despite the church’s later graphic focus on gruesome details.

It has a bit of a Father Ted (or Vicar of Dibley) vibe of “and then he was crucified…. which quite possibly involved something to do with sausages. As we can see here, that’s a lovely snack they’re giving him on that stick. Anyway, moving swiftly on to something a bit cheerier… The Easter Bunny — who wants go on an Easter egg hunt, just like the disciples used to do?…”