medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
1) The Decollation (Beheading) of John the Baptist (1st cent.). A few further images:
A) Relics:
Supposed head of J., kept as a relic in the cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Amiens since the early thirteenth century:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73553452@N00/2849375888/
http://tinyurl.com/39t68xt
Supposed right arm of J., now in the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul:
http://tinyurl.com/2eqv6zl
Supposed right hand of J., now in the Dionysiou Monastery on Mount Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/24fls8u
Supposed finger bones of J., said to be those donated by the pious woman Tigris in the later sixth century (cf. St. Gregory of Tours, _In gloria martyrum_, 13) and kept as relics in the cathedral of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (Savoie):
http://tinyurl.com/2czuvpx
B) Portrayals of, or scenes related to, J.'s decollation:
Herod's feast, Salome dancing, and the decollation as depicted in a later ninth-century Gospels from Chartres (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 9386, fol. 146v):
http://tinyurl.com/2euycde
Herod and Salome and Herod's feast on an earlier twelfth-century capital (ca. 1125-1150), Toulouse, Musée des Augustins:
http://tinyurl.com/2brzxyr
http://tinyurl.com/3yhg99v
These are discussed in a Tribune de l'Art page on an exposition of 2005 in which they were shown ("La France romane au temps des premiers Capétiens, 987-1152"):
http://www.latribunedelart.com/Expositions_2005/France_Romane_231.htm
The decollation as depicted in a twelfth-century Greek-language Gospels of unknown origin (Paris, BnF, ms. Supplément grec 914, fol. 42r):
http://tinyurl.com/3dj9x7g
Herod's feast and the decollation on Benedetto Antelami's north portal (ca. 1210), baptistery of Parma:
http://tinyurl.com/23jq57o
http://tinyurl.com/27glsvd
More views here (scroll down to "Il portale della Vergine"):
http://tinyurl.com/2b6dbet
Fresco of the decollation (later thirteenth-century), baptistery of Parma:
http://www.cattedrale.parma.it/img/voltabatt/104B-decollazione_Z.jpg
Views of the baptistery's cycle of John the Baptist are accessible from here:
http://tinyurl.com/kloxg
The decollation as depicted in the late thirteenth-century (ca. 1285-1290) Livre d'images de Madame Marie (Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 57v):
http://tinyurl.com/2u576u4
An expandable view of Herod's feast and the decollation as depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 114v):
http://tinyurl.com/3786qnd
Expandable views of panels of the St. John the Baptist cycle on Andrea Pisano's bronze south doors (1330-1366) for the baptistery in Florence:
http://tinyurl.com/6pk95s
Salome dancing with J.'s head on a platter as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (prob. before 1335) in the church of the Holy Apostles, Thessaloniki:
http://tinyurl.com/3sq9r6q
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/3oosll4
Scenes of J.'s suffering as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) of the vault of the diakonikon of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć at 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/2bg2kjq
Salome standing or dancing with J.'s head on a platter (detail from the fresco of Herod's feast):
http://tinyurl.com/2c6gru3
The decollation as depicted (lower register) in an August 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/y9h2efw
The decollation as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century (1348) copy of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 241, fol. 229v):
http://tinyurl.com/268bkv8
The decollation as depicted in a fourteenth-century copy of Guiard des Moulins' _Bible historiale_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 152, fol. 399v):
http://tinyurl.com/2delaqx
An expandable view of the decollation, the presentation of J.'s head, and the burial of his headless corpse as depicted in a mid-fourteenth-century mosaic in Venice's basilica di San Marco:
http://tinyurl.com/43wos35
Salome with J.'s head on a platter as depicted in a seemingly late fourteenth- or fifteenth-century fresco in the church of St. John (Ag. Ioannis) in Deliana (Chania prefecture) on Crete:
http://images.tournet.gr/photos/9017/006.jpg
The decollation as depicted by Rogier van der Weyden in a panel of his St. John Altarpiece (ca. 1455-1460) in the Staatliche Museen in Berlin:
http://tinyurl.com/2dafav3
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/28bpnrk
The altarpiece's three panels (views greatly expandable):
http://tinyurl.com/3amauub
The decollation as depicted in a later fifteenth-century copy (ca. 1480-1490) of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 245, fol. 74v):
http://tinyurl.com/3cn8e34
The decollation, Salome, and Herod's feast as depicted in a late fifteenth-century fresco (restored in 1876-1878) in St. Peter and Paul's Church, Pickering (N Yorks):
http://www.paintedchurch.org/pickhero.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3rf9hee
The decollation and Salome with J.'s head as depicted in glass windows from 1525 (restored, 1870-1871) in the Universitätskapelle of the Münster in Freiburg im Breisgau:
http://tinyurl.com/2657ahp
http://tinyurl.com/26aa336
C) A dedication:
Arbore monastery church, Soloca (Bucovina), Romania, erected in 1502-03 and dedicated to the Beheading of John the Baptist:
English-language accounts:
http://www.rotravel.com/romania/monasteries/arbore.php
http://tinyurl.com/oukgh
http://www.romanianmonasteries.org/bucovina/arbore
Views:
http://www.eliznik.org.uk/RomaniaViews/churches/arbore.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/kvabs7
Two views are here (about a third of the way down the page; one is of the interior):
http://tinyurl.com/n44sa6
2) Sabina of Rome:
A) Dedications:
Some brief, illustrated accounts of the basilica di Santa Sabina on the Aventine in Rome:
http://tinyurl.com/5tugwu
http://www.romeartlover.it/Vasi129.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Sabina
http://tinyurl.com/92wyu
Another view of the panels of this church's fifth-century wooden door:
http://tinyurl.com/2fsf6z2
An interior panorama:
http://tinyurl.com/3hpa66x
Of course, Sabina of Rome has been venerated at other places. One of these is Silanus (NU) in Sardinia, the circular central portion of whose originally later eleventh-century church of Santa Sabina echoes the shape and interior dimensions of the adjacent prehistoric _nuraghe_:
http://tinyurl.com/np292e
http://tinyurl.com/2e3o6v
http://www.ilportalesardo.it/archeo/nusilanus2.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6xlckj
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11627121@N03/2733058056
Another is San Benedetto dei Marsi (AQ) in Abruzzo, successor to the late antique and early medieval _civitas Marsicana_ (formerly Marruvium). Its church of Santa Sabina, thought to have had a predecessor of the fifth or sixth century, is documented from 964 onward. Throughout the Middle Ages this was the cathedral church of the diocese of the Marsi (since 1915, diocese of Avezzano). Badly damaged in the conflict between the papacy and Frederick II, this Santa Sabina was rebuilt for the visit in 1287 of Honorius IV but was again in poor condition when the diocesan seat was transferred to Pescina late in the sixteenth century. Herewith a couple of illustrated, Italian-language accounts of this church, which collapsed in the great earthquake of 1915:
http://tinyurl.com/6fczfc
http://www.radicchio.it/sanbenedettodeimarsi/page4.html
Views of its reconstructed thirteenth-century portal:
http://tinyurl.com/6nvrqt
http://tinyurl.com/3hpa66x [left click only]
http://www.provincia.laquila.it/GalleriaFoto.aspx?N=93
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3101/2574034416_b9f3f5f55f.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3095/2573211609_124ee3c34f.jpg
A Cistercian monk returning in the earlier twelfth century from Rome to the abbey of La Bussière at today's La Bussière-sur-Ouche (Côte-d'Or) in Bourgogne with the head of S. is said to have died at the church of St. Martin in the village of Lassey in the Auxois. The relic stayed there and by 1151 both the church and the village had come to be known by the saint's name. Herewith some views of the originally thirteenth-/fourteenth-century église Sainte-Sabine at today's Sainte-Sabine (Côte-d'Or):
http://tinyurl.com/294rgo4
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chelmsfordblue/5999373226/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chelmsfordblue/5999347140/
http://tinyurl.com/4yxnlf3
http://tinyurl.com/26hvjya
B) Portrayals:
S. (at center; identified as SAVINA, a late antique pronunciation spelling) as depicted in the restored later sixth-century mosaics (560s) of Ravenna's basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo (photograph by Genevra Kornbluth):
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/ApNNorth2.jpg
S.'s martyrdom as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (ca. 1335) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its
French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Arsenal 5080, fol. 134v):
http://tinyurl.com/449gncv
S. as depicted in a breviary of ca. 1414 for the Use of Paris (Châteauroux, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 310v):
http://tinyurl.com/3xq2ns4
An expandable view of the earlier fifteenth-century altarpiece of St. Sabina (1443) by Antonio Vivarini and Giovanni d'Alemagna in Venice's chiesa di San Zaccaria:
http://tinyurl.com/43xkb2r
Scenes from S.'s Passio as depicted in a later fifteenth-century copy (1463) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 50, fol. 379v):
http://tinyurl.com/2bequ4v
Best,
John Dillon
(matter from last year's posts revised)
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