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A lovely selection of images, John.
And one of my most favorite pictures of all:
http://www.wga.hu/art/c/carpacci/3schiavo/1/1vision.jpg
Augustine learning of the death of Jerome, by Carpaccio.
DW
John Dillon wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>On Sunday, August 27, 2006, at 10:37 pm, Paul Chandler wrote:
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>>Thanks especially for drawing attention to the very fine
>>online encyclopedia of philosophy from Stanford, which I had not known
>>about. Mendelson's through and dense but clear and illuminating
>>entry on Augustine is a marvel, a model of the brilliant encyclopedia
>>entry.
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>
>You're very welcome. The _Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy_
>http://plato.stanford.edu/index.html
>combines scholarly excellence with a commitment both to keeping its
>entries current and to making them available without charge on the Web
>(which latter it hopes to achieve for the indefinite future by raising
>a large endowment now). There are already entries on a fair number of
>medieval thinkers, to say nothing of medievally pertinent ancients such
>as Augustine. See the Table of Contents:
>http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html#a
>
>And now for some visuals pertaining to Augustine.
>
>Remains of A.'s basilica at Hippo Regius:
>http://tinyurl.com/sysyh
>
>A. in a wall painting (sixth-century) in the Lateran Palace, Rome:
>http://tinyurl.com/h6zao
>
>A. in a mosaic (twelfth- or perhaps early thirteenth-century) in the
>Cappella Palatina at Palermo:
>http://www.augustinus.it/iconografia/immagini/augustinus_009.jpg
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>The late thirteenth-century church of Sant'Agostino at San Gimignano
>(SI) in Tuscany:
>Aerial view:
>http://www.wga.hu/art/g/gozzoli/4gimigna/0view.jpg
>Note the location on a promontory on the edge of the old city. Naples'
>contemporary Sant'Agostino alla Zecca is similarly situated.
>Other views:
>http://www.sangimignano.com/sgago1.jpg
>http://www.hotelcisterna.it/img/santagostino2.jpg
>http://www.hotelcisterna.it/img/santagostino.jpg
>
>Views of A.'s fourteenth-century tomb in the Basilica di San Pietro in
>Ciel d'Oro at Pavia (PV) in Lombardy:
>http://www.augustinus.it/iconografia/immagini/augustinus_204.jpg
>http://web.tiscali.it/ghirardacci/bellandi/SAgostino_Arca.jpg
>http://tinyurl.com/dmk3e
>Website on the tomb:
>http://tinyurl.com/lthau
>Courtauld images:
>http://tinyurl.com/kan8e
>In 1842 an elbow from A.'s relics contained therein was brought from
>Pavia to today's Annaba (medieval Bo^ne, ancient Hippo Regius) in
>Tunisia for the building/consecration of A.'s modern basilica there.
>Expandable views of the relic and of related modern artifacts, put on
>display for an international conference in 2001, are here:
>http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/algeria/relics.html
>
>Benozzo Gozzoli's fresco cycle (1464-65) of scenes from the life of A.,
>in San Gimignano's Chiesa di Sant'Agostino:
>Context in the church:
>http://tinyurl.com/hbrc8
>http://www.wga.hu/art/g/gozzoli/4gimigna/1view.jpg
>Scheme of the cycle:
>http://www.wga.hu/art/g/gozzoli/4gimigna/2scheme.jpg
>Expandable views of the frescoes:
>http://tinyurl.com/j6om4
>
>Carlo Crivelli, Jerome and A. (1490), Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice:
>http://www.bramarte.it/400/img/cri5.jpg
>Note the demon, also present in the thirteenth-century miniature from
>Pierpont Morgan Library, ms. M. 92, shown here:
>http://www.princeton.edu/~heresy/
>
>Best again,
>John Dillon
>
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