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| CSM Number : 74 | ||||
| Short name: | The Painter and the Devil | |||
| Incipit: | Quen Santa Maria quiser defender | |||
| Refrain: | Quen Santa Maria quiser defender/ non lle pod’ o demo niun mal fazer. | |||
| Summary of narrative | ||||
| Setting: | unspecified | Protagonist(s): | a painter | |
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A painter always painted the devil ugly. The devil asked him why he did this, and the painter explained that he made him look ugly because he was evil. The devil grew angry and threatened to kill the painter. One day, when the painter was painting an image of the Virgin on a wall, the devil caused a wind to arise and blow over the scaffold on which the painter was standing. The painter called on the Virgin and she caused him to hang suspended in mid-air by his brush. The people, who had heard the scaffold come crashing to the ground, saw the defeated devil flee from the church. When they saw the painter hanging by his brush, they thanked the Virgin. |
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| Metrical data | ||||
| Stanza: | 11 11 11 11 | Refrain: | 11 11 | |
| No. of Stanzas: | 10 | |||
| Rhyme scheme: | AA | bbba | Zejel: | Yes | |
| MS locations: | ||||
| T74, E74, To87 | ||||
| Poncelet reference | ||||
| Diabolus accedit ad pictorem; quaesivit cur eum tam (345) | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| craftsman, devils, image (of devil), image (of Virgin Mary), painter, scaffold, wind | ||||
| Discography | ||||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | ||||
| Miracle | Collection | |||
| The Painter and the Devil | Vincent de Beauvais |
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| The Painter and the Devil | John of Garland |
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| The Painter and the Devil | Miraculorum B. Mariae. libri III (Reims 1400) |
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| The Painter and the Devil | BL Mariale 5 (London, BL, Additional MS 15723, Collection 2, ff. 70-92) |
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| The Painter and the Devil | Jean Gobi |
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| The Painter and the Devil | Bartholomew of Trent (University of Bologna, Codice 1794) |
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| The Painter and the Devil | Jean Mielot, Miracles de Nostre Dame (Oxford, Bodleian, Douce MS 374) |
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| The Painter and the Devil | Johannes Herolt |
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| The Painter and the Devil | Pseudo-Caesarius |
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| BITAGAP ID | ||||
| 3791 | ||||
| Bibliography | ||||
| Cantigas de Santa Maria do rei don Alfonso Alfonso X , o Sábio | ||||
| The Oxford Book of Portuguese Verse Bell, Aubrey F. G. | ||||
| ’La Arquitectura desde la Miniatura’, una aproximación desde la Baja Edad Media castellana Chico Picaza, María Victoria | ||||
| Imágenes de la Virgen en los códices medievales de España Delclaux, Federico | ||||
| Sources of the Cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio [AC] Dexter, Elise Forsythe | ||||
| Imágenes vivientes: idolatría y herejía en las Cantigas de Alfonso X García Avilés, Alejandro | ||||
| Folklore in the Cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio Keller, John Esten | ||||
| Alfonso X, el Sabio Keller, John Esten | ||||
| Alfonso X el Sabio y la pintura sobre tabla Sánchez Cantón, Francisco Javier | ||||
| Tres ensayos sobre el arte en las Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso el Sabio Sánchez Cantón, Francisco Javier | ||||
| As Cantigas de Santa Maria Vaz Leão, Angela | ||||
| From Symbol to Myth: The Devil in Canticle 74 Vega, Carlos Alberto | ||||