medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Thursday, October 7, 2010, at 11:01 am, I wrote:
> 3) Sergius and Bacchus (d. ca. 305, supposedly).
> Some portrayals:
> g) A late thirteenth-century icon (1280s) of S. and B. in St.
> Catherine's Monastery, Sinai:
> http://touregypt.net/featurestories/catherines2-27.htm
A much better image of this icon:
http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/mar/ser2701.jpg
> k) The martyrdom of S. and B. as depicted in a September calendar
> scene in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350)
> of the narthex in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki
> Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter,
> either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
> http://tinyurl.com/ya22bd9
Er, this is an _October_ calendar scene. Apologies for the editing error.
> m) S. and B. as depicted in early sixteenth-century frescoes (1502)
> by Dionisy and sons in the Virgin Nativity cathedral of the St.
> Ferapont Belozero (Ferapontov Belozersky) monastery at Ferapontovo in
> Russia's Vologda oblast:
> http://www.dionisy.com/img/139/frag_lg.jpg
A much better image of these portraits:
http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/mar/ser2702.jpg
BONUS IMAGES:
a) S. as depicted in an earlier seventh-century fresco in the church of St. Demetrius in Thessaloniki:
http://tinyurl.com/23st4on
b) S. and B. in a seemingly late thirteenth- or fourteenth-century fresco whose actual location has not been communicated by any of the Web pages on which I've found it:
http://tinyurl.com/2cfuuwo
> Some dedications:
>
> a) The originally fourth-century monastery of Mar Sarkis (St.
> Sergius) at Ma'lula (Maalula), Syria. The rounded main altar of its
> church is dated to the years 313-325 (if so, the original dedication
> is not likely to have been to S.).
> A view of the interior:
> http://www.cammino.it/maggio2001/foto29c.html
> A close-up of the top of the main altar:
> http://tinyurl.com/253dgq
> Modern exterior:
> http://www.alovelyworld.com/websyrie/htmgb/syr011.htm
An illustrated page on this church:
http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/mar/mar06.html
> e) The originally eighth-century church of S. (Abu Serga) and B. in Cairo:
> http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/serga.htm
Clearer plans and a view of the crypt are here:
http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/mar/mar02.html
An even better view of the crypt:
http://tinyurl.com/25coq2a
> h) The originally fifteenth-century crkva Sv. Sergija i Vakha in Podi
> (near Herceg Novi) in Montenegro:
> http://tinyurl.com/26v8wgz
> http://www.herceg-novi.co.me/images/svKrstPodi1.jpg
> http://tinyurl.com/2c7sp52
> http://tinyurl.com/49hbd3
Two further views and a plan and section:
http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/mar/ser2502.jpg
http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/mar/ser2503.jpg
http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/mar/ser2501.jpg
Best again,
John Dillon
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