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And for the fun of it, I put up a terrific painting of Savonarola as St.
Peter Martyr which turns up in /Machiavelli in Hell /by Sebastian de Grazia.
http://nauplion.net/savonarola.html
DW
Diana Wright wrote:
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> And the oldest extant image of St. Peter Martyr
>
> http://nauplion.net/petermartyr.html
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> A small -- nearly invisible unless you are on a ladder -- carving of
> St P-M made in the 1260s for the church of the Dominican House of
> Negroponte.
> http://www.arts.cornell.edu/dendro/2004News/ADP2004.html [halfway
> down the page] for dating of the construction. Pierre MacKay is
> giving a paper on this at the upcoming medieval colloquium at Sewanee.
> http://www2.sewanee.edu/communications/events?id=17758
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>
> DW
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> John Dillon wrote:
>> 4) Peter Martyr (Peter of Verona; d. 1252). The Dominican P. was an
>> effective preacher and a tireless inquisitor in northern Italy. He
>> was ambushed and murdered by enemies who lodged a harvesting blade of
>> some form in his skull. His cult was virtually immediate and he was
>> canonized in 1253. P.'s tomb is in Milan's church of
>> Sant'Eustorgio. Created in 1335-39 by Giovanni di Balduccio, it has
>> moved around a bit but now is housed in the church's Cappella Portinari:
>> http://www.santeustorgio.it/images/arcaportinari.jpg
>> http://tinyurl.com/44689y
>> http://tinyurl.com/bclkm
>> A Thais page with expandable views of details from this monument:
>> http://www.thais.it/scultura/giovbald.htm
>> Detail (martyrdom of P. and a companion):
>> http://tinyurl.com/3pu7zd
>> http://tinyurl.com/4yadu6
>> Another view of Temperance (one of the tomb's caryatids):
>> http://tinyurl.com/9glgo
>> Many detail views here (also has views of a cycle of frescoes by
>> Vincenzo Foppa dealing with P.'s miracles):
>> http://tinyurl.com/4jt5cr
>>
>> Here's an expandable view of P. as represented (1490s) by Pedro
>> Berruguete, from a dismembered retable formerly at Santo Tomás de
>> Ávila (this panel now in the Prado):
>> http://tinyurl.com/5cj52l
>> Another portrait of P. (ca. 1494) by the same artist, also in the Prado:
>> http://www.manyanet-alcobendas.org/cuadro15.jpg
>> A no longer expandable view of that portrait, accompanied by
>> English-language text:
>> http://tinyurl.com/3t3wwt
>> And here's an expandable view of an almost exactly contemporary
>> depiction of him (at left, obviously) in a panel from Carlo
>> Crivelli's altarpiece for the church of San Domenico at Camerino (MC)
>> now at the Brera in Milan:
>> http://tinyurl.com/m4ury
>>
>> Verona's largest "gothic" church is the formerly Dominican pile
>> popularly known as Sant'Anastasia after the dedication of a
>> predecessor on this site. Begun in the late thirteenth century, it
>> has been dedicated to P. since 1307. Completed (except for the
>> facade) in the fifteenth century, it was restored in 1878-81. A
>> detailed, Italian-language account of it (and of the adjacent San
>> Giorgetto) is here:
>> http://tinyurl.com/7r63z
>> English-language account with expandable views (mostly details):
>> http://www.verona.com/index.cfm?Page=Guida§ion=luoghi&id=984
>>
>> Some exterior views (incl. the fifteenth-century belltower):
>> http://tinyurl.com/b6fxt
>> http://www.froehlich.priv.at/galerie/verona04/original/stf316.html
>> http://www.shakespeareinitaly.it/IMGP0109.JPG
>>
>> Front views, with San Giorgetto at left:
>> http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:Santanastasiaverona.jpg
>> http://www.shakespeareinitaly.it/IMGP0098.JPG
>>
>> Main portal (showing polychrome marbles):
>> http://www.mestieriarte.it/images/images_1/marmo/opere/verona.jpg
>> Main portal, sculptural details and faded frescoing:
>> http://www.verona.com/Data/Photos/20010620/DSC00027.JPG
>> http://www.verona.com/Data/Photos/20010620/DSC00026.JPG
>>
>> The portal was once adorned with fifteenth-century reliefs of scenes
>> from P.'s life; two of these remain:
>> http://www.aboutromania.com/verona9.html
>> http://www.verona.com/Data/Photos/20010620/DSC00023.JPG
>> http://www.verona.com/Data/Photos/20010620/DSC00024.JPG And here's a
>> restored P. on the trumeau:
>> http://www.verona.com/index.cfm?page=immagini_dettaglio&id_immagine=248
>>
>> Some expandable interior views:
>> http://tinyurl.com/m9q8b
>> http://tinyurl.com/nd8s4
>> http://tinyurl.com/rfa2m
>> http://tinyurl.com/mjr8x
>>
>>
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