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> > A related question: how does the West represent Pilate in the Middle
> > Ages? I have read that the Abyssinian Copts regarded him as a saint.
> > Does any of that translate into the West?
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> > Tom Izbicki
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> He is *usually* represented as a Roman military commander. In the
> mosaics of the apse arch of S. Maria Maggiore in Rome, dating from
> the mid-5th century, however, King Herod is represented with a halo.
> Jim Bugslag
Yes, as Julius von Schlosser showed (Praeludien), the nimbus is one of
the many attributes that Christian art borrowed from pagan iconography:
another example is the use of haloes for Justinian and Theodora in San
Vitale de Ravenna. But at the end of the 15th c. it is hard to expect
this for such an abominable character as Judas.
I am sorry to say that the "drunkenness alibi" is not much convincing.
Dear Otfried:
As usual, it is a pleasure to get your thoughts and bib. references.
What a good scholar are German Uni. missing!
I have consulted I. Westerhoff paper on Judas _Aachener Kunstblaetter_,
61 (1995-97), pp. 85-156, but I have not access to Dinzelbacher's work,
so I'd be really grateful if you could quote the examples he provides in
n. 130.
Best from here,
Carlos
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