September 23, 2012
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- Les Grotesques, Alessandra Zamperini traduit de l'italien par Odile Menegaux, titre original : Le Grottesche Il sogno della pittura nella decorazione parietale, Edition Citadelles et Mazenod (2007) ISBN 9788877433183
Researching the Flemish fantastique and Flemish grotesque of my previous posts [1] [2], I found Le genre satirique: fantastique et licencieux dans la sculpture flamande et wallonne; les miséricordes de stalles (The Satirical Genre: the Fantastic and Licentious in Flemish and Walloon Sculpture: the Misericords and Stalls) by Louis Maeterlinck.
The book deals with licentious wood carvings in choir stalls and misericords and has an engraving of an example[3](above) at Basilique Saint-Materne de Walcourt.
Louis Maeterlinck, family of Maurice Maeterlinck, also wrote Le genre satirique dans la peinture flamande (The Satirical Genre in Flemish Painting), a book which features Olifant (gravure)[4], The Battle of the Money Bags and the Strong Boxes[5] and the allegorical landscape painting Met recht soudic gerne doer de Werelt commen.
Photo by Jean-Pol GRANDMONT [6]
![[3]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walcourt_-_Mis%C3%A9ricorde_-_Satire_des_baladins.JPG?uselang=nl){kind=link}
![[4]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alaert_du_Hamel_%28after_Jheronimus_Bosch%29_Elephant.jpg){kind=link}
![[5]](http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/hb/hb_26.72.40.jpg){kind=link}