medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear Pat,
You have "The Legend of the Relics of Saint John the
Baptist." A fairly complete discussion may be found at
http://www.khm.at/system2E.html?/staticE/page733.html
MG
--- Pat McIntosh-Spinnler
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval
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> Dear List-members
>
> In pursuit of information about the Knights of St
> John I have come across
> the following quite extraordinary image:
>
> http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/art/g/geertgen/bones.jpg
>
> The artist is one Geertgen tot Sint Jan, probably a
> member of the Order
> (according to the site which led me to the image)
> and it is an altarpiece,
> seen here closed.
>
> Can anyone with time to take a look at it tell me
> what is happening? There
> appear to be four or five episodes depicted, some
> possibly Biblical, some
> contemporary with the painting (late C15 I think). I
> am particularly
> intrigued by the man with the bread-shovel full of
> bones, and his companion
> delicately extracting another bone from the open
> tomb.
>
> In hope,
> Pat
>
>
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