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Today (6. January) is the feast day of:
1) The Epiphany. A few visuals:
Adoration of the Magi (fourth-century), panel from a Roman sarcophagus, Vatican City, Museo Pio Cristiano, Inv. 31459, ex. 124:
http://tinyurl.com/39l3m9
Adoration of the Magi (by 386), Milan, Museo Diocesano, Reliquary Box (silver gilt) of Manlia Dedalia (also known as the Casket of San Nazaro), at left in this image (at right is the Judgment of Solomon):
http://www.liceoberchet.it/netday/luoghi/nazaro/capsella.jpg
Note _two_ Magi only, dressed as pagan philosophers. For those with access to JSTOR, there's a discussion and a much better image in C. R. Morey, "The Silver Casket of San Nazaro in Milan", _American Journal of Archaeology_ 23 (1919), 101-25 (photograph on p. 103).
Adoration of the Magi (ca. 430), Paris, Musée du Louvre, Salle de Qabr Hiram, reliquary casket:
http://tinyurl.com/226eml
Adoration of the Magi (ca. 425-449), Ravenna, Museo Arcivescovile, Casket of Sts. Quiricus and Julitta:
http://tinyurl.com/yvx85m
Adoration of the Magi (earlier sixth-century), London, British Museum, ivory panel:
http://tinyurl.com/sueln
Three Magi (ca. 545), Ravenna, church of San Vitale:
http://tinyurl.com/2wv5sy
http://tinyurl.com/3828a4
Three Magi (ca. 560; heavily restored), Ravenna, church of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo:
http://tinyurl.com/3x7y9f
Adoration of the Magi (sixth-century), silver flask, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/just/ho_1984.196.htm#
Adoration of the Magi (late sixth- or early seventh-century), on one of two leaves from another manuscript bound into the rear of the Etchmiadzin Gospels (989), Yerevan, Matenadaran MS 2374:
http://armlet1600.sci.am/images/echmiadzin2-big.jpg
Altar (737-744) of duke Ratchis, Cividale, Museo Cristiano del Duomo:
http://www.arengario.net/momenti/imm/momenti27e.gif
Adoration of the Magi:
http://tinyurl.com/2ccovz
Adoration of the Magi (Master of Castelseprio; prob. ninth-century), Castelseprio (VA), Lombardy, church of Santa Maria foris Portas, apse fresco:
http://tinyurl.com/2md7f8
Magi scenes (ca. 1020), sacramentary of English origin, Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 274, fol. 37:
http://tinyurl.com/37jt8y
http://tinyurl.com/2r3uar
Magi scenes, wooden doors (ca. 1060), Santa Maria im Kapitol, Köln (top register):
http://tinyurl.com/2xw8cd
Adoration of the Magi (early twelfth-century), Taüll (Lérida), Catalunya, church of Santa Maria de Taüll (NB: This is a copy; the original is in the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña in Barcelona):
http://tinyurl.com/34a6ln
Magi scenes, St Albans Psalter (betw. 1120 and 1145), Hildesheim, Dombibliothek, MS St. Godehard 1:
http://tinyurl.com/yt7qbp
http://tinyurl.com/yqj8nm
http://tinyurl.com/24qf8c
http://tinyurl.com/2cp25l
Magi scenes, capitals (betw. 1125 and 1145), Autun, cathedral of St-Lazare:
http://tinyurl.com/3cft8x
http://tinyurl.com/2w77yz
Magi scenes, Infancy of Christ window (1145-55), Chartres, cathedral of Notre-Dame:
http://tinyurl.com/2mfyde
http://tinyurl.com/3bzgd6
http://tinyurl.com/2rah83
http://tinyurl.com/3x9fmz
Adoration of the Magi (twelfth-century), Origen, _Homiliae in Testamentum vetus_, Charleville-Mézières, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 245, t. I, fol. 198v:
http://tinyurl.com/2mrspr
http://tinyurl.com/32ukcw
Adoration of the Magi (so-called Epiphany of Navasa; twelfth-century) from the church of la Asunción at Navasa, now in the Museo de Arte Sacro Diocesano de Jaca, Jaca (Huesca), Aragon:
http://tinyurl.com/ykbqm4
http://ago.webcindario.com/OBR0006-Navasa.htm
http://www.romanicoaragones.com/0-Jacetania/Museo%20G50.jpg
Adoration of the Magi (ca. 1170), Moissac, abbey church of St-Pierre, south porch, east wall:
http://tinyurl.com/y7sgbl
The Three Magi (later twelfth-century [after 1164]), pilgrim badge (of silver), Magdeburg, Kunsthistorisches Museum:
http://www.dasheiligereich.de/neu/15_staufer.html
Adoration of the Magi (ca. 1170-1180), sacramentary for the Use of Saint-Martin de Tours, Tours, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 193 (f. 1-142), fol. 21v:
http://tinyurl.com/ynjvdc
Adoration of the Magi (late twelfth-century), reliquary chasse, Taipei, National Palace Museum:
http://tinyurl.com/2a25d3
Adoration of the Magi (ca. 1200), reliquary chasse, Paris, Musée national du Moyen Âge:
http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/museums/mma/mma35.jpg
The Three Magi (late twelfth-/early thirteenth-century), Fidenza, cathedral of San Donnino:
http://tinyurl.com/y2joas
Adoration of the Magi (late twelfth-/early thirteenth-century), Pontaubert (Yonne), church of Notre Dame de la Nativité:
http://tinyurl.com/2d4ort
Two other views here:
http://tinyurl.com/yrbnlg
Magi scenes (late twelfth-/early thirteenth-century), Chartres, cathedral of Notre-Dame, north porch, left portal:
http://tinyurl.com/2nhawf
The Three Magi on their shrine (ca. 1192-ca. 1220), Köln, cathedral of St. Peter und Maria:
http://tinyurl.com/35b6es
http://www.wjt2005.de/index.php@id=1029&si=0.htm
Adoration of the Magi, St. Peter Gospels (ca. 1200), Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Cod. St. Peter perg. 7, fol. 2v:
http://www.blb-karlsruhe.de/blb/images/2006/blb-19.jpg
Magi scenes (early thirteenth-century), Forlì, cathedral of San Mercuriale, several expandable views starting about a quarter of the way down the page here:
http://tinyurl.com/yvxku8
Adoration of the Magi (Nicola Pisano; 1255-1260), Pisa, baptistery of San Giovanni, pulpit at right here):
http://tinyurl.com/23rdly
Detail views:
http://www.thais.it/scultura/image/sch00554.htm
http://www.thais.it/scultura/image/sch00555.htm
Adoration of the Magi (ca. 1280-1290), Hours for the Use of Thérouanne, Marseille, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 111, fol. 22:
http://tinyurl.com/yohycc
Links to views of several late thirteenth- to fifteenth-century depictions of the Magi in English churches are given here:
http://www.paintedchurch.org/infintro.htm
Adoration of the Magi (Giotto; 1303-05), Padua, Cappella dei Scrovegni ("Arena Chapel"):
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/giotto/SSC-magi-vl.jpg
Magi scenes, mosaic (betw. 1315 and 1321), Istanbul, Chora Church (Kariye Camii), exonarthex:
http://tinyurl.com/yrzvxm
http://tinyurl.com/2eep84
Adoration of the Magi (1349), Milan, church of Sant'Eustorgio, Cappella dei Re Magi:
http://tinyurl.com/2j4h2n
Adoration of the Magi (ca. 1350), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, panel of an ivory diptych with Marian scenes:
http://tinyurl.com/33oyhj
For similar representations on fourteenth-century ivory diptychs in the Louvre, see:
http://tinyurl.com/27r9d9
Adoration of the Magi (ca. 1370), Su¨ica , Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Marko's Monastery, church of Sv. Dimitrie:
http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/monmarkovi/Magi.jpg
The Three Magi (Abraham Cresques, attrib.; betw. 1375 and 1380), illumination in the Catalan Atlas, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits (division occidentale), Ms. Espagnol 30, fol. 4v:
http://tinyurl.com/37r2ee
Adoration of the Magi (very late fourteenth-century), Herman de Valenciennes, _Roman de Dieu et de sa mere_, Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 550, fol. 67:
http://tinyurl.com/2vw7ha
Adoration of the Magi, Hvroje's Missal (written in Glagolitic script in the very early 1400s for a church in Croatia), Topkapi Sarai Museum, Istanbul:
http://home.pages.at/tamb/photo/gross/hrvojev_misal.jpg
Adoration of the Magi (Conrad von Soest; ca. 1420), Dortmund, Marienkirche, detail of Marienaltar (right wing, inside):
http://tinyurl.com/2l2j4j
Adoration of the Magi (Gentile da Fabriano; 1423), Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi:
http://tinyurl.com/24h8hj
Adoration of the Magi (Beato Angelico; 1430-1433), Madrid, Museo del Prado, altarpiece (by A.) of the Annunciation, predella panel:
http://tinyurl.com/29evvc
Adoration of the Magi (Andrea Mantegna; 1461), Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, retable from the chapel of the ducal palace at Mantua, panel:
http://tinyurl.com/2naqt9
Epiphany (Jaume Huguet, d. 1492), Barcelona, Museu d'Historia de la Ciutat:
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/h/huguet/epiphany.jpg
Epiphany (Pieter Dancart; ca. 1488), Seville, cathedral of Santa María, high altar:
http://www.galeon.com/juliodominguez/2006/cepi.html
Adoration of the Magi (Johann von Ach; late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century), Strasbourg, cathedral of Notre-Dame, Portail Saint-Laurent:
http://tinyurl.com/23mklv
For closer views, click on "statues" in the menu at right here:
http://tinyurl.com/2b2wpr
2) Andrea Corsini (d. 1374). A member of a noble Florentine family, A.'s stereotypical dissolute youth ended at about the age of sixteen when he became a novice at the Carmelite convent in that city. He was ordained priest at some time during the years 1324-1328. In 1348 he was elected provincial of his order for Tuscany. In the following year he became bishop of neighboring Fiesole, where he chose to live rather than in Florence and where he rebuilt the choir and the roof of the cathedral of San Romolo. A. was instrumental in resolving strife among Florence's noble families. Under Urban V he served as papal legate in Bologna.
A. was buried at San Romolo in Fiesole but in short order was removed to Florence's Santa Maria del Carmine, where, miraculously spared by the fire of 1771, he still reposes. By the early fifteenth century he was object of a public cult. A. is said to have been canonized in 1629 by Urban VIII (a Florentine). A bull of canonization for him was issued by Benedict XIII in 1724. Although today is A.'s _dies natalis_ and his day of commemoration in the new RM, his being trumped by the Epiphany has caused him to be celebrated liturgically on other days. His feast day in Florence is tomorrow (7. January); among Carmelites, it is 9. January.
Here's A. as depicted in one of the later fifteenth-century frescoes at the Carmelite sanctuary of San Felice del Benaco (BS) in Lombardy:
http://tinyurl.com/y3j9kw
Best,
John Dillon
(last year's post very lightly revised and somewhat expanded)
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