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Today (29. August) is the feast day of:
The Decollation (Beheading) of John the Baptist (1st cent.). Herewith a
few images.
The probably late eleventh-century parish church of San Giovanni
Battista Decollato at Montemurlo (PT) in Tuscany (expanded, early
sixteenth century; fourteenth-/fifteenth-century belltower):
http://tinyurl.com/q964u
http://tinyurl.com/opg82
Capital in the cloister (completed, 1110) of the Abbey of St.
Peter at Moissac:
http://tinyurl.com/krt4y
Expandable views of the Moissac capitals are here:
http://tinyurl.com/mq6wl
Benedetto Antelami's north portal (ca. 1210), Baptistery of Parma,
architrave, detail:
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/c9c56e8a.html
Portal as a whole:
http://www.wga.hu/art/a/antelami/virgin_c.jpg
Fresco of the Decollation of John the Baptist (later
thirteenth-century), Baptistery of Parma:
http://www.cattedrale.parma.it/img/voltabatt/104B-decollazione_Z.jpg
Views of the baptistery's cycle of John the Baptist are reachable here:
http://tinyurl.com/kloxg
The originally thirteenth- to early fifteenth-century cathedral of
Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) is dedicated to John the Baptist. It was
very badly damaged in World War II and has since been rebuilt.
Multiple views:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=225143
Exterior:
http://www.geocities.com/gregmoto/9609wro.JPG
http://tinyurl.com/omsvx
http://tinyurl.com/govjf
http://www.wroclaw.pl/p/3082/
http://tinyurl.com/mld98
http://tinyurl.com/e6579
Interior:
http://www.wroclaw.pl/p/3133/
A fifteenth-century alabaster plaque from England:
http://test.huntmuseum.com/qzty2o/2593.jpg
Archival info:
http://tinyurl.com/hw9qv
Andrea del Verrochio, Beheading of John the Baptist, silver altar panel
(1477-80), Baptistery of Florence:
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/giorgio.vasari/verrocc/pic1.htm
Arbore monastery church, Soloca (Bucovina), Romania, erected 1502-03 and
dedicated to the Beheading of John the Baptist:
http://www.eliznik.org.uk/RomaniaViews/moldavia-churches.htm
http://www.dntis.ro/romania/arbore/1.jpg
English-language accounts:
http://www.rotravel.com/romania/monasteries/arbore.php
http://tinyurl.com/oukgh
More views:
http://www.dntis.ro/romania/arbore/views.html
Best,
John Dillon
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