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I'm not having any luck finding the image on the net. Can you provide a
link or send me an image privately?
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From: "Marijim Thoene" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 5:10 PM
Subject: [M-R] Enquiry about Latin text in painting Trionfo di s. Agostina
in S.Franceso Church in Pistoia, It.
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Dear Scholars, First I apologize for asking a question that deals with
> art in the Renaissance! It is a fresco of St. Augustine tho! I'm
> hoping you might be able to tell me what the Latin text is in the
> scroll held by St. Augustine, in a painting, called attributed to an
> anonymous artist known as "Maestro della Cappella Bracciolini", dated
> primo quarto del sec. XV, in the church of St. Francis in Pistoia, It.
> The painting is similar to "The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas"
> (1366-68) by Andrea Bonaiuti in the Spanish Chapel of Santa Maria
> Novella in Florence. Thomas holds a scroll with a Latin text which
> I've discovered to be a passage from Wisdom. Both contain
> personifications of the Seven Liberal Arts. I've only found one
> article on the work, in the journal Prospettiva (N. 48, 1987) and the
> text is not discussed. Any info would be much appreciated. Many
> thanks. Marijim Thoene, DMA
> On Jul 30, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Jim Bugslag wrote:
>
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> > culture
> >
> > Dear Listmembers,
> > In a 1985 article, Beryl Smalley referred to a study on "the two
> > swords" being
> > worked on by Gerard Caspary of Berkeley and referred to his
> > "preliminary study"
> > published as _Politics and Exegesis: Origen and the Two Swords_
> > (Berkeley, 1979).
> > Does anyone know whether Dr. Caspary eventually completed this study?
> > Many thanks,
> > Jim Bugslag
> >
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