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Listen to an informed perspective on this genderfluid architectural wooden relief. Dr Jennifer Awes Freeman expands upon the androgynous and maternal iconography of Christ in medieval art, while making connections to Ecce Homo by Georg Pencz (1538), another artwork in Agnes’s collection.

The Unnamed Genderfluid Figure: Transgender and Intersex Interpretations of Medieval Christian Art
Dr Jennifer Awes Freeman provides an interpretation of this genderfluid architectural wooden relief.
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The Unnamed Genderfluid Figure: Transgender and Intersex Interpretations of Medieval Christian Art
Dr Jennifer Awes Freeman provides an interpretation of this genderfluid architectural wooden relief.

Early Christian theologians embraced maternal and androgynous imagery.

Dr Jennifer Awes Freeman
A carved wooden figure, bearded with breasts. Lower half of the body covered in leaf-like motif.

Unknown maker,  Carved Architectural Ornament, unknown date,  wood, varnish. Unknown source (M77-720)

Georg Pencz, Ecce Homo, 1538, oil on limewood panel. Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader, 1986 (29-002)

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Dr Jennifer Awes Freeman

Jennifer Awes Freeman is the Associate Professor and Program Director of Theology and the Arts at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. She is also an Adjunct Professor in Art History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning and Power, and The Ashburnham Pentateuch and its Contexts: The Trinity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.

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