medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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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