medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (28. December) is the feast of:
The Holy Innocents (ca. 3 BCE). We know about these sacrificial victims for Christ from Matthew 2: 16-18. Their feast in Rome seems to be no older than the later fourth century. Its stational church is San Paolo fuori le Mura, which latter is said to hold relics of them. Herewith views of a few medieval representations of the Massacre of the Innocents:
Master of the Codex Egberti, manuscript illumination (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, Ms. 24), late tenth century:
http://tinyurl.com/y3kgee
Portal relief (1190-1200), St-Trophime (cathedral), Arles:
http://tinyurl.com/y5ojjw
Portal relief (ca. 1220-1236), Notre-Dame (cathedral), Amiens:
http://angeamiens.ifrance.com/angeamiens/pages/cathedrale58.htm
Manuscript illumination, German (ca. 1240), BL, Add. Ms. 17687 B:
http://tinyurl.com/ychm79
Portal relief (ca. 1300), church of Santa Maria la Real, Olite, Navarra:
http://www.arteguias.com/imagenes/stamariaolite4.jpg
Giovanni Pisano, pulpit relief (1297-1301), San Zeno (cathedral), Pistoia:
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/giorgio.vasari/pisano/pic12.htm
idem, pulpit relief (1302-1303), Santa Maria Assunta (cathedral), Pisa:
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/italy/pisa/duomopulpit/0045.jpg
Giotto di Bondone, fresco (1303-1305), Cappella degli Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua:
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/giotto/SSC-strage-l.jpg
Duccio di Buoninsegna, panel painting (1308-1311), Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena:
http://tinyurl.com/ukbmh
Giovanni da Bonino, glass window (1325-1334), Santa Maria Assunta (cathedral), Orvieto:
http://www.icvbc.cnr.it/bivi/schede/Umbria/orvieto/1duomo15.htm
Fresco (1407), Santa Maria Assunta (parish church), Terlano/Terlan (BZ) in the South Tirol:
http://www.burgenseite.com/faschen/terlan_ritter_5.jpg
Fra Angelico (attrib.), panel painting (1450-1453), formerly in the church of the Santissima Annunziata in Florence, now in that city's Museo Nazionale di San Marco:
http://saints.bestlatin.net/images/gallery/innocenti_angelico.jpg
Matteo di Giovanni (attrib.), mosaic panel (ca. 1481), floor of Santa Maria Assunta (cathedral), Siena:
http://tinyurl.com/y8k8gf
Antonio da Pandino (attrib.), glass window (ca. 1490), formerly in the cathedral of Milan (Santa Maria Nascente), now in the collection of the Château du Hac, Le Quiou, Brittany:
http://www.icvbc.cnr.it/bivi/estero/1chateau_hac1.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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