Dr. James Cameron has
posted a fun yet appalling post on bad art in English cathedrals. (The art appalls, not Dr. Cameron’s
missive.)
Having visited Ely’s Lady
Chapel at least twice, I agree that the shrieking Mary statue there is a bad
joke. But I disagree that it is
the worst piece of cathedral art in England.
I have not visited
Liverpool Cathedral, but the statue supposedly of the Risen Christ on the west
front exceeds even Shrieking Mary in modern absurdity. The thing reminds me much more of the
big bad alien in Prometheus than of the risen Christ.
But see for yourself . . .
if you dare.
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