I really hate art history. It's fine for other people to study it, but it's just not for me. Still it's important to learn a bit or else there will be huge gaps in my knowledge, so every now and then I gird my lions and yawn my way through a book of it. Sometimes it's worth it for sentences like this: "In Aulay, for example, the vine foliage is being excreted by an anus demon who is holding his legs up in order to be able to set Satan's bonds on their fecal way into the world."^* Or say this: "On the pediments of the same church a phallus man appears two consoles away from a vulva woman."^*

^* Rolf Toman, ed., Romanesque: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, translated by Fiona Hulse and Ian Macmillan (Cambridge: h.f.ullmann, 2010), 342.