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Today (25. November) is the feast day of:
Catherine of Alexandria (d. ca. 305, supposedly). The virgin martyr C.'s historicity is very poorly attested. Herewith two illustrated, English-language sites on the monastery honoring her on the Sinai peninsula in Egypt (whither her body is said to have been miraculously transported and where her veneration is unmentioned in any of the surviving late antique pilgrim accounts):
http://www.geographia.com/egypt/sinai/stcatherine.html
http://www.touregypt.net/Catherines.htm
C.'s body being carried thither by angels, as depicted in the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (ca. 1407):
http://tinyurl.com/5zu72t
C. in a tripartite scene (ca. 1428-1430; image expandable) said here to be by Masolino da Panicale, showing 1) her about to be decapitated, 2) her infant soul being held aloft by an angel, 3) angels at her tomb on top of a mountain (Sinai, presumably):
http://tinyurl.com/35layt
The present arrangements for housing C.'s putative relics:
http://www.sinaimonastery.com/en/index.php?lid=84#
A page on the restored early fourteenth-century St Catherine's Lighthouse on the Isle of Wight, initially adjoined by an oratory dedicated to C.:
http://www.invectis.co.uk/iow/orat.htm
Single views (the first showing the roofline of the now vanished oratory):
http://www.invectis.co.uk/iow/ora2.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/3asojh
One doesn't often have the opportunity in 'saints of the day' to show a medieval lighthouse.
Other dedications to C.:
a) St Catherine's Church, East Tilbury (Essex; twelfth-/fourteenth-century with later modifications):
http://tinyurl.com/2yj9mg
b) The Katharinenkirche at Bliedersdorf (Lkr. Stade) in Niedersachsen (1240 with later modifications):
http://tinyurl.com/2ngp6t
http://tinyurl.com/2m9l87
c) The chiesa di Santa Caterina (d'Alessandria) in Pisa (mostly later thirteenth- and fourteenth-century):
Illustrated English-language and Italian-language pages, with rather different dates for the building's construction (the last of these, from Stile Pisano, has many expandable views following the text):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Caterina_%28Pisa%29
http://tinyurl.com/3yvtqoh
http://tinyurl.com/2wht649
d) The Katharinenkirche in Osnabrück (Nordrhein-Westfalen; 1342; built over the foundations of an earlier thirteenth-century predecessor).
An aerial view, a flank view, and a German-language page with expandable views:
http://tinyurl.com/2cuv5vk
http://cdn1.venyoobot.de/images/gj/uh/gjuh3r_400_600.jpg
http://www.osnabrueck.de/6522.asp
e) The church of Agia Aikaterini (Ναός Αγίας Αικατερίνης) in Thessaloniki (late thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century [before 1310]):
Some exterior views and a German-language page with views of the interior (incl. remains of later medieval frescoing):
http://tinyurl.com/345fadh
http://tinyurl.com/3xcbjuo
http://tinyurl.com/2aurytw
http://tinyurl.com/28poseu
http://tinyurl.com/2aq8kyw
f) The Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim (Lkr. Mainz-Bingen) in Rheinland-Pfalz (thirteenth-/earlier fifteenth-century):
An illustrated, German-language page:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharinenkirche_%28Oppenheim%29
Aerial view:
http://www.bildagentur-rath.de/typo3temp/pics/9b36135d1d.jpg
Other views:
http://tinyurl.com/24mkrss
http://cdn.fotocommunity.com/photos/15793194.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/26858v7
http://www.darnellfamily.org/Albums/Germany2007/G32.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/23ox8ty
http://tinyurl.com/26fko2
http://tinyurl.com/2b6z3t
http://tinyurl.com/283fjkw
http://tinyurl.com/2azb4ou
http://tinyurl.com/2fh3v5q
http://tinyurl.com/2a3wuyl
http://www.ibbamberger.de/img/projekte/kirchen/KiOpp2.jpg
g) The iglesia de Santa Catalina, Valencia (thirteenth-/sixteenth-century):
Illustrated Spanish-language and Catalan-language pages:
http://tinyurl.com/23sfsnx
http://tinyurl.com/26zb93z
h) The iglesia de Santa Catalina, Seville (fourteenth-century):
An illustrated, Spanish-language page:
http://tinyurl.com/65nbew
That huge portal was moved to its present location from another church in 1929. The original, mudejar-style entrance is behind it:
http://www.sevilla5.com/monuments/mphotos/santacatalina2.jpg
i) The Church of St Catherine, Ludham (Norfolk; fourteenth-/fifteenth-century; more expandable views near foot of page):
http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/ludham.htm
j) St Catherine's Church, Boot (Cumbria; fourteenth-/fifteenth-century expansion of [replacement for?] a chapel of the same dedication attested from 1125):
http://www.visitcumbria.com/wc/chc3.htm
http://www.walkthefells.net/DIR.asp?DIR_ID=22
k) The Katharinenkirche in Salzwedel (Sachsen-Anhalt; fourteenth-/fifteenth-century):
An illustrated, German-language site:
http://tinyurl.com/27ypke
That site's gallery of expandable views and its pages on the church's building history, on its sculptures, and on its stained glass (mostly early fifteenth-century):
http://tinyurl.com/29na8h
http://tinyurl.com/2bpdsyj
http://tinyurl.com/22kbzsz
http://tinyurl.com/2apycb6
l) The originally earlier fifteenth-century chapel (1421/1422) of Agia Aikaterina (Παρεκκλήσιο της Αγίας Κατερίνης) at Pyrga (Larnaka prefecture) in the Republic of Cyprus, believed to have been founded by the Lusignan king Janus [r. 1398-1432] and thus often styled a Royal Chapel [Βασιλικό Παρεκκλήσιο]):
http://tinyurl.com/2g98c8c
http://tinyurl.com/29w86qg
m) The kostol Sv. Kataríny in Banská Štiavnica in Slovakia (1443-1491):
http://tinyurl.com/26eq7e
http://www.pbase.com/bmcmorrow/image/46962094
n) The église Sainte-Catherine in Honfleur (Calvados) in Normandy (1460-1490 with later modifications):
http://www.linternaute.com/sortir/escap/ouest/honfleur/9.shtml
http://www.ot-honfleur.fr/Sainte-Catherine,0,0,29.html
http://tinyurl.com/3cpokh
http://www.nimbustier.net/photos/2005/08/b/2005-08-07-024.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/yarrdgu
o) The Sint-Katharina en Sint-Corneliuskerk in Diegem in Machelen, Flemish Brabant (originally fifteenth- and earlier sixteenth-century; consecrated, 1543; the crossing tower a modern re-building of its destroyed seventeenth-century predecessor):
http://www.belgiumview.com/belgiumview/tl3/view0000314.php4
Some portrayals of C.:
a) As depicted in the earlier eleventh-century mosaics (restored between 1953 and 1962) in the katholikon of the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis:
http://tinyurl.com/39uqg7t
b) As depicted in an early thirteenth-century initial in a copy of ca. 1200 of Clemence of Barking's _La vie sainte Katherine_ (London, British Library, MS add. 70513, fol. 246r):
http://margot.uwaterloo.ca/~drussell/images/Kth246r.jpg
NB: Texts of the poem from this and two other witnesses are available at no. 13 here:
http://margot.uwaterloo.ca/campsey/cmphome_f.html
c) As depicted in a thirteenth-century wall painting in Hailes Church (Glos):
http://tinyurl.com/yucv7k
The church itself:
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/england/hailes-church.htm
d) As depicted in a later thirteenth-century (ca. 1260) Cistercian psalter (Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 54, fol. 11r):
http://tinyurl.com/332y45h
e) As depicted in a later thirteenth-century psalter for the Use of Reims (Carpentras, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 77 (\1), fol. 178v):
http://tinyurl.com/3a8pdqe
f) As depicted in a late thirteenth-century Book of Hours (ca. 1280-1290) for the Use of Thérouanne (Marseille, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 111, fol. 148r):
http://tinyurl.com/2v485b6
g) As depicted (in this detail view, upper register at right) by Simone Martini in his earlier fourteenth-century Polyptych of Santa Caterina (1319) in the Museo Nazionale di San Matteo in Pisa:
http://www.wga.hu/art/s/simone/4altars/3pisa/3pisa.jpg
h) As depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century window panel in the Latin Chapel, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford (photograph by Gordon Plumb):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2715295068/
Detail (C.):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2714499961/
i) As depicted by Gregorio d'Arezzo and Donato d'Arezzo in a panel painting of ca. 1330 in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles:
http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000095165.html
j) As depicted by the Fauvel Master (attrib.) in an earlier fourteenth-century collection of French-language saint's lives (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 183, fol. 100v):
http://tinyurl.com/ykkzgpo
k) As depicted by Bernardo Daddi in an earlier fourteenth-century panel painting (betw. 1335 and 1340) in a private collection in Milan:
http://tinyurl.com/yku9mwa
l) As depicted by Barna da Siena in an earlier fourteenth-century panel painting (betw. 1330 and 1350) of C.'s mystical marriage with Christ now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston:
http://tinyurl.com/2ewhze2
m) As depicted by Pietro Lorenzetti in an earlier fourteenth-century panel painting (betw. 1342 and 1345) now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York:
http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000099705.html
n) As depicted by Richard or Jeanne de Montbaston 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. 316r):
http://tinyurl.com/yktrtxz
o) As depicted by Paolo Veneziano in a mid-fourteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1350) of St. John the Baptist and C. in the Art Institute of Chicago:
http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000093460.html
p) As depicted (lower register, far left) by Paolo Veneziano and Giovannino Veneziano in their mid-fourteenth-century Coronation of the Virgin altarpiece in the Pinacoteca comunale, San Severino Marche:
http://tinyurl.com/6ffo4r
q) As depicted on a late fourteenth-century silver gilt reliquary pendant (betw. 1380 and 1390) of Parisian origin in the Victoria and Albert Museum in Lodon:
http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/19232-popup.html
r) As depicted (at right) by Gentile da Fabriano in a late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1395-1400 or ca. 1405) of the Virgin and Child with St. Nicholas and St. Catherine in the Staatliche Museen in Berlin:
http://www.wga.hu/art/g/gentile/virgin_c.jpg
s) As depicted by Masolino da Panicale in an earlier fifteenth-century fresco (betw. 1428 and 1431) of C.'s martyrdom in the cappella di Santa Caterina in Rome's basilica di San Clemente:
http://tinyurl.com/2a2vyn
t) As depicted in a mid-fifteenth-century window panel in the Church of St George, Stamford (Lincs; photographs by Gordon Plumb):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2915583386/
Detail views (C.):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2915590414/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2915387759/
u) As depicted by Michael Pacher in a later fifteenth-century panel painting (1467) in the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck:
http://www.wga.hu/art/p/pacher/various/1lauren3.jpg
v) As depicted by Carlo Crivelli in a later fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1470; from his now dismembered Montefiore altarpiece) in the chiesa di Santa Lucia in Montefiore dell'Aso (AP) in the Marche:
http://tinyurl.com/2c2cx9
Detail (C.):
http://tinyurl.com/2dd4ar
w) As portrayed in relief on a wing of the later fifteenth-century altar of Kölner origin, since 1931 in Sankt Peters Klosters kyrka in Lund:
http://tinyurl.com/285r4mv
The opened altarpiece as a whole:
http://tinyurl.com/267qf65
x) As portrayed in a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century statue in Jelling Kirke in Sydjylland:
http://tinyurl.com/299esod
y) As depicted in a late fifteenth-/early sixteenth-century icon in the Simonpetra monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://home.yebo.co.za/~xenitis/AgAikaterini.jpg
z) As depicted in an earlier sixteenth-century glass window panel of Kölner origin now in the Museum Schnütgen in Köln:
http://tinyurl.com/3adest2
Best,
John Dillon
(last year's post revised)
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