medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Thank you, John!!
George
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Herewith a few images for today's feast.
Icon (on an iconostasis beam?), St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinai,
Egypt, Nativity of the Theotokos (twelfth-century):
http://www.rdrop.com/users/stmary/fss079.jpg
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Suzdal, Russia, thirteenth-
/sixteenth-century (built 1222-25, collapsed in the fourteenth century
and substantially rebuilt in the 1530s):
http://international.loc.gov/mtfph/php/p343008r.jpg
http://www.fortunecity.com/bennyhills/mrbean/768/suzdb01.html
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87_5067__00943_.jpg
Pietro Cavallini, Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome, mosaic,
Nativity of the BVM (1291):
http://www.wga.hu/art/c/cavallin/mosaic/nativity.jpg
Florence, Cattedrale di Santa Maria dei Fiore (first stone laid this
day, 1296):
http://www.vps.it/new_vps/gallery_foto.php?id_foto=122&stato=3
http://www.opus1.com/www/jmspics/summer99/_998-firenze-duomo.html
http://www.pbase.com/ngoc_out/image/34480262
http://www.pbase.com/ngoc_out/image/34480257
2-page, English-language account:
http://www.mega.it/eng/egui/monu/buq.htm
http://www.mega.it/eng/egui/monu/bus.htm
Giotto, Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padova, fresco cycle: Story
of the Early Life of the Virgin (top register north wall), 1304-06.
Nativity of the BVM:
http://www.wga.hu/art/g/giotto/padova/2virgin/mary01.jpg
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. e. 39 [Breviary of Chertsey
Abbey (fragments)], fol. 108v, manuscript illumination (early
fourteenth-century; initial H [in Hodie]), Nativity of the BVM:
http://tinyurl.com/n2w9p
Pietro Lorenzetti, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena, wood panel,
Nativity of the BVM (1342):
http://www.vps.it/new_vps/gallery_foto.php?id_foto=122&stato=3
Anonymous painter, Novgorod School, The State Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow, wood panel, Nativity of the Virgin (mid-fourteenth-century):
http://tinyurl.com/g9rqd
http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/novirb.jpg
Giovanni da Milano (active in Milan and Florence, 1350-1369), Cappella
Rinuccini, Santa Croce, Florence, fresco, Nativity of the BVM. Third
image here:
http://www.kfki.hu/~/arthp/html/g/giovanni/milano/index.html
Andrea di Bartolo (Sienese; active 1389-1428), The National Gallery of
Art, Washington, DC, panel, Nativity of the BVM (ca. 1400):
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pdimage?186+0
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Don. d. 85 [Psalter and Missal excerpts
['The Whetenal Psalter')], early fifteenth-century (with additions),
fol. 114r, Office of the Nativity of the BVM:
http://tinyurl.com/l7loz
Master of the Life of the Virgin (German; active, 1460-1480), Alte
Pinakothek, München, Nativity of the BVM (ca. 1470). First two images
here:
http://tinyurl.com/noub3
Best,
John Dillon
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