medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Wednesday, November 17, 2010, at 12:50 pm, I wrote:
> 12) Elizabeth of Hungary (d. 1231)... E., who
> had dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi a hospital she had built in
> Marburg, was subsequently promoted by Franciscans as a model of lay
> spirituality and charity...
> E.'s copper-gilt shrine (betw. 1235 and 1250) in the same church [i.e. the St. Elisabethkirche in Marburg an der Lahn]:
> http://tinyurl.com/263lctk
> A nicely expandable view of E. as portrayed on her shrine occurs about
> two-thirds of the way down this page:
> http://tinyurl.com/23hjwz2
Another view of E.'s shrine and detail views of its portrayals of E. succoring the poor:
http://www.wga.hu/art/zzdeco/1gold/13c/02g_1200.jpg
http://www.wga.hu/art/zzdeco/1gold/13c/02g_1201.jpg
http://www.ev-kirche-bickenbach.de/elisabeth6.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/2uayxd5
An illustrated, German-language page on E.'s arm reliquary of ca. 1240, since 1833 in the possession of the house of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn at Schloss Sayn in Bendorf (Lkr. Mayen-Koblenz) in Rheinland-Pfalz:
http://tinyurl.com/22o9dqh
Two other views of this object:
http://tinyurl.com/2crbfz8
http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Fotos/Elisabeth-Reliquiar.jpg
Further portrayals of E.:
a) E. as portrayed in an earlier thirteenth-century statue, thought to be from very shortly after her canonization in 1235, in the (ex-)cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Naumburg:
http://tinyurl.com/2c92wjh
http://tinyurl.com/2f7q5qc
b) E. tending the sick as depicted in the late thirteenth-century (ca. 1285-1290) Livre d'images de Madame Marie (Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 82v):
http://tinyurl.com/268a74o
c) An expandable view of E. as depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 157r):
http://tinyurl.com/28ej2gw
d) E. (at right; at left, St. Clare of Assisi) as depicted by Simone Martini in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (1317) on the entrance to the cappella di San Martino in the lower church of the basilica di San Francesco at Assisi:
http://www.wga.hu/art/s/simone/3assisi/1saints/saints40.jpg
Detail (E.):
http://www.wga.hu/art/s/simone/3assisi/1saints/saints41.jpg
f) E. (at left, with Sts. Margaret of Hungary and Henry of Hungary) as depicted by Simone Martini in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (1317) in the south transept of the lower church of the basilica di San Francesco at Assisi:
http://www.wga.hu/art/s/simone/3assisi/transept/5saints2.jpg
g) In legend, the young E. was forbidden by her father to distribute food to the poor. She of course did so anyway and was stopped for inspection, whereupon the food was changed miraculously to flowers (or was miraculously covered by them). E. is so depicted (at left) in a fresco of ca. 1337 formerly in the chiesa di Sant'Elisabetta d'Ungheria in Perugia and now in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria in that city:
http://tinyurl.com/25vzodw
h) E. at prayer as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century French-language collection of saint's lives (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 185, fol. 223r):
http://tinyurl.com/27kq28s
i) E. experiencing a vision as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (1348) of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 241, fol. 305r):
http://tinyurl.com/23dvsks
j) Expandable views of illuminations in a richly illustrated later fourteenth-century Officium et Vita of E. from Seville (Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition latine 868) are accessible from here (click on "Images"):
http://mandragore.bnf.fr/jsp/afficherNoticeMan.jsp?id=2229
k) E. holding her flowers as portrayed in a panel of a late fourteenth- or very early fifteenth-century painting attributed to Gherardo Starnina (formerly known as the Maestro del Bambino Vispo) and sold at auction at Sotheby's in 1962:
http://tinyurl.com/35ct4rd
Expandable views of the painting as photographed prior to that sale are here:
http://tinyurl.com/3x2fuzp
Where is this painting now?
l) E. as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century (ca. 1414) breviary for the Use of Paris (Châteauroux, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 415v):
http://tinyurl.com/32rasnx
m) E. experiencing a vision as depicted in an earlier-to-mid-fifteenth century Franciscan breviary of Milanese origin (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 760, fol. 573r):
http://tinyurl.com/2a7psrq
n) E. holding her flowers (at right; at left, St. Francis of Assisi) as depicted by Piero della Francesca in his later fifteenth-century Polyptych of Sant'Antonio (ca. 1460-1470) now in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria in Perugia:
http://www.wga.hu/art/p/piero/1/3anton04.jpg
o) E. succoring the poor as depicted in a later fifteenth-century copy (ca. 1480-1490) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 245, fol. 175r):
http://tinyurl.com/2by2xdw
p) A surprisingly elderly E. (she was only twenty-four when born into eternal life) holding her flowers as portrayed (second from left; at left, St. Francis of Assisi) by Andrea della Robbia in about 1500 in his great terracotta relief of the Madonna and Child with Saints in the chiesa di Sant'Agata in Radicofani (SI) in Tuscany:
http://tinyurl.com/26h953j
q) An also elderly E. as portrayed in a late fifteenth- or earlier sixteenth-century statue in the Stiftskirche in Stuttgart:
http://tinyurl.com/35wdpkr
Best again,
John Dillon
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