Talk:Trinity Altarpiece

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Is it of sufficient encyclopedic interest to warrant a mention that the Ramping Lion on the shield on the wall behind the two Jameses has been turned around to face in the respectful direction (towards the altarpiece's center panel)? It would be de rigeur to put the Jameses and Saint Andrew on the right (or "superior"/"dexter") side, in respect of their rank as Kings and a Saint, which means they have to look towards their own left to pay attention to the center panel. The Ramping Lion on their shield has been turned around the "wrong" way so that it gazes in the same direction as they do. There are at least two other examples where the concept of a "more-honored" side or direction forces a left-right reversal. One is in Magdeburg Cathedral. Emperor Otto I and Empress Consort Eagdyth sit with him on the LEFT side (their own lefts), because that places him closer to some point or direction of higher honor, perhaps the East end of the church, even though it puts him on the "wrong" side of her. And in a church somewhere (in Germany I think) there are stained-glass windows of a father and son who both served as Holy Roman Emperor, early, when the eagle was still only single-headed. The eagle on the shield of the father looks in the typical direction (its own right), but the eagle on the shield of the son looks in the "wrong" direction because it has turned to respectfully gaze face-to-face with the eagle on the father's shield, which was deemed to be a more important consideration than representing the shield "correctly".2604:2000:1383:8B0B:4CC5:982:2FD6:912C (talk) 14:26, 21 November 2020 (UTC)Christopher L. Simpson