medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Saturday, December 24, 2005, at 1:05 pm, Phyllis wrote:
> Today (25. December) is the feast day of:
>
> Anastasia (d. c. 304)
A particularly noteworthy dedication to A. is Verona's Sant'Anastasia
(late 13th- to late 15th-century; restored,, 1878-81; facade never
completed). Originally the church of a Dominican convent, it was built
on the site of a predecessor church dedicated to A. and going back to to
the time of king Theoderic (489-526). In 1307 the new church was
dedicated to the Dominican saint Peter Martyr, a native of Verona killed
in 1252 and canonized in 1253 (the saint with the blade lodged in the
top of his head):
http://web.tiscali.it/ANTONIOLIONETTI/Murgia%2012.htm
http://tinyurl.com/7grvc
But it is said to have continued to be referred to popularly as
Sant'Anastasia; this is also its modern dedication as a parish church of
the diocese of Verona (which acquired it from the Dominicans in 1808).
Sant'Anastasia is Verona's largest church. A detailed, Italian-language
account of it (and of the adjacent San Giorgetto, now officially San
Pietro Martire) 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
German-language account, emphasizing artworks in the church:
http://www.bibione-urlaub.de/verona-sant-anastasia.php
Some exterior views (incl. the 15th-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 today's San Pietro Martire (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 15th-century reliefs of scenes from the
life of Peter Martyr; 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
A page with expandable interior views is here (this is a Wikipedia
work-in-progress, so please ignore the erroneous designation
'Cattedrale'; the first exterior view is actually of today's San Pietro
Martire and the one headed 'Altar' is of Verona's real cathedral, Santa
Maria Matricolare):
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cattedrale_di_Sant'Anastasia
(The two versions of "Detail of a pillar" are in fact a view of one of
the two famous early modern hunchbacks supporting holy water
fonts attached to pillars near the main entrance.)
Details (vaulting):
http://tinyurl.com/cddh6
http://tinyurl.com/7tps4
More interior details (expandable; click on "Bild vergrößern"):
http://www.froehlich.priv.at/galerie/verona04/800x800/stf229.html
http://www.froehlich.priv.at/galerie/verona04/800x800/stf231.html
http://www.froehlich.priv.at/galerie/verona04/800x800/stf233.html
An important artwork, usually ascribed to Pisanello and said to he among
his few documented frescoes, is the "Partenza di San Giorgio" (also
known as "St. George and the Princess"; late 1430s) in the Pellegrini
Chapel. The expandable views of it available on this page ascribe the
fresco instead to Pisanello's former collaborator Gentile da Fabriano
(whether by accident or design I do not know) and call it "S. George &
the Dragon":
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/italren/renart/display00025.html
Numerous details are here:
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/commons/pisanello.html
Between today's San Pietro Martire (late 13th- or early 14th-century)
and Sant'Anastasia is the entrance to what was once the convent's cloister:
http://tinyurl.com/d6lc9
Above the entrance is the early 14th-century tomb of Guglielmo da
Castelbarco (d. 1320), a della Scala courtier and major patron of
Verona's Dominican and Franciscan churches:
http://tinyurl.com/c8wjm
http://www.froehlich.priv.at/galerie/verona04/original/stf223.html
A view of the cloister is here:
http://christophermolloy.com/photo/italy/S00219.jpg
And an illustrated, Italian-language page on today's San Pietro Martire
(San Giorgetto) is here:
http://www.legambienteverona.it/salvalarte/1b.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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