medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Thursday, October 28, 2010, at 1:23 am, I wrote:
> 1) Simon and Jude, apostles (d. 1st cent.).
A few further portrayals:
S.'s martyrdom as depicted in the late tenth- or very early eleventh-century so-called Menologion of Basil II (Cittą del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. gr. 1613):
http://tinyurl.com/28drapg
S. and J. (at left, the emperor Henry III [d. 1056]) in a full-page illumination in the mid-eleventh-century Emperor's Bible or Codex Caesareus Upsaliensis, formerly at Epternach (Uppsala, Universitetsbibliotek, cod. C 93):
http://tinyurl.com/37dbpqg
Somewhat less impressively, S. and J. (at right; at left, the emperor Henry III) on the reverse of one of Henry III's coins:
http://tinyurl.com/2g9aa5h
S. and J. as depicted in the thirteenth-century mosaics of the Ascension cupola in Venice's basilica di San Marco:
S.:
http://tinyurl.com/2g4g3l7
J.:
http://tinyurl.com/25ztkah
J. (at right, with the clubs with which he is said to have been martyred) as depicted in the later thirteenth-century alte Pfarrkirche St. Cyriakus in Niedermendig, an _Ortsteil_ of Mendig (Lkr. Mayen-Koblenz) in Rheinland-Pfalz:
http://tinyurl.com/2fumbf6
S. and J. as depicted in earlier fourteenth-century panel paintings (ca. 1320) from the workshop of Simone Martini, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC:
http://tinyurl.com/25hrvtm
> Some churches:
>
> a) Views of what's left of the originally later eleventh-/earlier
> twelfth-century church of S. and J. at Goslar in Niedersachsen:
An additional set, incl. views of the stucco reliefs of S. and J.:
http://tinyurl.com/276pokh
Best again,
John Dillon
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