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Thanks, chris. Here's a whole page of expandable views of the five capitals found at Nazareth in 1908 and now mounted on a wall in the church of the Annunciation there:
http://picasaweb.google.com/JuliannaLees/NazarethCapitals#
Best again,
John Dillon
On Thursday, March 26, 2009, at 9:53 am, Christopher Crockett wrote:
> From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > 1) The Annunciation of the Lord (also the Annunciation to the Blessed
> Virgin Mary). Herewith a few visuals pertaining to this feast,
> starting with
> some dedications to the Virgin Annunciate:
>
>
> some might say that the place to start with those is the
> Church/Basilica/Cathedral of the Annunciation in...Nazareth:
>
> http://www.sacred-destinations.com/israel/nazareth-basilica-of-annunciation.htm
>
> presently a somewhat Over-the-Top, modren structure, built, in part,
> on and
> over the original previous ones, but not preserving much of those,
> save for
> the "Grotto of the Annunciation," where the Deed was said to have been
> done:
>
> http://www.sacred-destinations.com/israel/nazareth-basilica-of-annunciation-pictures/slides/grotto-cc-indiana-jsam.htm
>
> [n.b. though that url, inexplicably, contains "cc-indiana" i had nothing
> whatever to do with the photograph or the website.]
>
>
> the site has seen extensive excavations since the end of the 19th c.,
> most
> thoroughly published in two quite good volumes by the Franciscan Bellarmino
> Bagatti:
>
> Excavations in Nazareth. (Publications of the Studium Biblicum Fransciscanum;
> no. 17)
> Jerusalem: Franciscan Press, 1969-[2001?]
> 2 v. illus. (part col.), plans. 29 cm.
>
> Incomplete contents:
>
> v. 1. From the beginning till the XII century.
> v. 2. From the 12th century until today...
>
>
> a fair-enough site devoted to the earlier churches is here:
>
> http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/san/TSnzz04.html
>
> the excavations of c. 1908 turned up these rather spectacular sculptures:
>
> http://www.christusrex.org/www1/terras/TSnzcapi.jpg
>
> discussed in some detail here:
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=IKsJ-aVmc1EC&pg=PA194&lpg=PA194&dq=nazareth+%22church+of+the+annunciation%22+excavation+capital&source=bl&ots=3VrCHulz4p&sig=awEXSUHlmKXVJXUWcgjvNhC-ofM&hl=en&ei=vYnLSfr0OcLelQfopPDvCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA194,M1
>
> including (on the next page) a plate (7.3) of a torso of St. Peter,
> found in
> 1968.
>
> these sculptures, equally notable for both the shear quality of the carving
> and the quite unique bizarreness of their style were, i believe, the
> work of a
> French sculptor who began his career in the Chartrain region, working
> at
> Chateaudun and on the "Royal Portals" of Chartres and Etampes, and
> ending up
> in Nazareth, presumably shortly after a massive and damaging
> earthquake in
> 1171, and certainly before that Salad-Inn guy brought down the Curtain
> on the
> whole Crusader Scene in 1187.
>
> c
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