St Michael
Mar. 23rd, 2024 07:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo I spent a fair chunk of the morning trying to get AI to give me an image of the Archangel Michael to add to my gallery of divine persons.
It offered me a young Brad Pitt in armour. It offered me Jesus Christ being soppy. It offered me over-muscled warriors in Marvel-type armour. It offered me girls...
(Look, if I'd wanted Joan of Arc -whom I adore- I'd have said so.)
It just couldn't think beyond gender.
What I was hoping for was something like this, from a Last Judgement by Rogier Van Der Weyden, only obviously not exactly the same because what would be the point?
Rogier's St Michael is gracile, androgynous, intense.
When it comes to imagining gender-neutrality the 15th century was ahead of us.
It offered me a young Brad Pitt in armour. It offered me Jesus Christ being soppy. It offered me over-muscled warriors in Marvel-type armour. It offered me girls...
(Look, if I'd wanted Joan of Arc -whom I adore- I'd have said so.)
It just couldn't think beyond gender.
What I was hoping for was something like this, from a Last Judgement by Rogier Van Der Weyden, only obviously not exactly the same because what would be the point?
Rogier's St Michael is gracile, androgynous, intense.
When it comes to imagining gender-neutrality the 15th century was ahead of us.
