medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
There seems to be a "block" or a "box" or a squarish
something to the right of the staff as you look at the
painting--might this be part of an atribute? I didn't see
it in the tracing.
Katherine French
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:14:51 +0100
Gerallt Nash <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>Further to my earlier note (copied below) you can access
>images of the wall-painting in question at
>
> http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/9/1/5/1/057-n-chapel.jpg
>
> http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/9/1/5/2/078-n-chapel.jpg
>
> Plus a tracing of the conserved painting at ...
>
> http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/9/1/5/4/figure_chapel.png
>
> We are trying to identify a wall-painting that was
>uncovered and rescued from St Teilo's church in south
>Wales, before it was dismantled and rebuilt at St Fagans:
>National History Museum, near Cardiff. It was located on
>the north wall of a chapel which was accessed directly
>from the chancel. It depicts a standing male figure,
>virtually life-size, facing the viewer. The head (and any
>headwear) is missing. He holds a rod or staff which
>slopes diagonally (from our top right to bottom left) in
>front of him. It is not clear whether this is simply a
>plain staff, or one with a cross on top, or a crozier. If
>the latter, the figure could be a bishop. He appears to
>be wearing a full length costume (white with folds picked
>out in red/black), but wears a short (dark red) cope
>across the shoulders. There was a second figure within an
>adjoining panel, again possibly wearing a short-ish red
>cope. The paintings probably date from circa. 1500-30.
> It has been suggested that our man could be a cleric
>(because of the short cope), but could he be a bishop? We
>also wonder whether it could be a representation of St
>Teilo (patron saint of horses and apple trees and
>one-time bishop of Llandaff), or, if a cleric, that of
>Paulinus who was his (and Dewi/St David's) tutor when he
>was a young man?
> Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
> Gerallt
>
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