Taidetta tutkimaan : menetelmiä ja näkökulmia

Locality, nation and the ‘primitive’ - notions about the identities of late medieval non-professional wall painters in Finnish historiography from 1880 to 1940

Challenges in Researching Medieval Ecclesiastic Art in Finland : the Passion of Christ in the Visual and Material Culture of Medieval Finland

Kaksiosainen juhlateos valottaa myöhäiskeskiaikaista maalariammattilaisuutta Ruotsissa

Women and Demons in the Late Medieval Wall Paintings in the Church of Espoo (Finland)

The late-medieval stone church of Espoo (county of Uusimaa), situated on the south coast close to the current-day capital of Finland, Helsinki, displays a wealth of medieval wall paintings executed around the 1510s by a group of painters that has remained anonymous. In the fourth vault of the north aisle a demon has been depicted as the proxy and associate of women who are seen in typical household tasks of milking and churning. On the west wall above the entrance a depiction shows a demon passing a pair of shoes to a woman, and above, three demons are seen twiddling with a parchment. This article analyses the images and places them in the context of social control that aimed at regulating …