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 (including some early antecedents of the German soldier of World War I propaganda with a Belgian baby on his bayonet):
Pyx (between 550 and 600; ivory and copper), Paris, Musée du Louvre:
http://tinyurl.com/37fu5y
Manuscript illumination (Master of the Codex Egberti, late tenth-century; Trier, Stadtbibliothek, Ms. 24):
http://tinyurl.com/6ujrwe
Reliquary châsse (mid to late twelfth-century), Paris, Musée du Louvre:
http://tinyurl.com/298avy
Portal relief (1190-1200), St-Trophime (cathedral), Arles:
http://tinyurl.com/7lk763
Manuscript illumination (ca. 1200), Psalter(?) fragment, codex sometimes described as a picture bible (The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76 F 5; fol. 11v):
http://tinyurl.com/2ule7j
Capital (late twelfth- or very early thirteenth-century), iglesia de Santa Cecilia, Aguilar de Campóo (Palencia):
http://tinyurl.com/3dy6jj
http://www.flickr.com/photos/canduela/1936314370/sizes/l/
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/9337683.jpg
Portal relief (ca. 1220-1236), Notre-Dame (cathedral), Amiens:
http://angeamiens.ifrance.com/angeamiens/pages/cathedrale58.htm
Manuscript illumination (1266), Epistles according to the Use of Cambrai (Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 190; fol. 11v):
http://tinyurl.com/3ymzxh
Manuscript illumination (mid to late thirteenth-century), Psalter according to the use of Arras (Aix-en-Provence, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 14; fol. XI):
http://tinyurl.com/35mlax
Portal relief (ca. 1280-1285), west facade, Notre-Dame (cathedral), Strasbourg:
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/strasbourg/westntympdet.jpg
Portal relief (ca. 1300), iglesia de 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
Mosaic (between 1315 and 1321), Chora Church (Kariye Camii), Istanbul:
http://www.fixcas.com/cgi-bin/herod.py?KariyeCamii
Giovanni da Bonino, glass window (1325-1334), Santa Maria Assunta (cathedral), Orvieto:
http://www.icvbc.cnr.it/bivi/schede/Umbria/orvieto/1duomo15.htm
Master of Waltensburg (Waltensburger Meister / Maister da Vuorz), wall painting (ca. 1340), Sankt/San Zeno (parish church), Lüen (Graubünden/Grisons):
http://tinyurl.com/38a53x
Wall painting (1407), Santa Maria Assunta / St. Mariä Himmelfahrt (parish church), Terlano/Terlan (BZ) in the South Tirol:
http://www.burgenseite.com/faschen/terlan_ritter_5.jpg
Manuscript illumination (ca. 1450), Missal according to the Use of Nantes (Le Mans, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 0223; fol. 16v):
http://tinyurl.com/2tt7l5
Beato 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
Hugo van der Goes (attrib.), panel painting (before 1482), part of an Adoration of the Magi triptych, Saint-Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum:
http://www.fixcas.com/cgi-bin/herod.py?Goes
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
Manuscript illumination (before 1498), Breviary according to the Use of Besançon (Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 69; p. 209):
http://tinyurl.com/ytsk3c
Best,
John Dillon
(last year's post lightly revised)
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