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Further visuals for Januarius:
J. as depicted in a sixth-century wall painting in Naples' catacombe di San Gennaro:
http://www.aissca.it/aissca/immagini/SanGenn2ImageParticolare.jpg
J. as depicted in a late eleventh- or early twelfth-century roundel in the chiesa di Sant'Aniello at Quindici (AV) in Campania:
http://www.moschiano.net/Quindici/pages/affresco%2023_jpg.htm
The roundels depict J. and his traditional companions in martyrdom. Expandable views of the entire composition are here:
http://www.moschiano.net/Quindici/Quindici_Affreschi.htm
J. as depicted in a now somewhat degraded twelfth- or thirteenth-century fresco in what's left of the rupestrian cripta/chiesa di San Gennaro al Bradano in Matera (MT) in Basilicata:
http://tinyurl.com/4nelf4
Other views of this church:
http://adonisannua.wordpress.com/itinerari/itinerario-1/
J. (at left; at right, St. Restituta) as depicted in a mosaic of 1322 by Lello da Orvieto in the cappella di Santa Maria del Principio in the Santa Restituta portion of Naples' cattedrale di of Santa Maria Assunta:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/16345656.jpg
Naples' cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta possesses -- and regularly displays -- this early fourteenth-century head reliquary of J. (the base is from 1609):
http://tinyurl.com/lw2b85
In formal attire, with decorations:
http://tinyurl.com/23rnjlv
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/193/485569048_3bcc3ae85a.jpg
http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/naples/gennarobust.jpg
Pozzuoli's chiesa di San Gennaro alla Solfatara possesses an early fourteenth-century marble bust of J. with a base depicting in inlay the two ampules of J.'s supposed blood. There's a discussion of it, with a good color photograph (Opere, 2), in Elio de Rosa, ed., _San Gennaro tra Fede, Arte e Mito. Napoli, Santa Maria di Donnaregina Nuova, Dicembre '97 - Aprile '98_ (Pozzuoli: EdR, 1997), at pp. 98-99. Here's a view:
http://tinyurl.com/3zph8a
Naples' cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta's processional display reliquary for the ampoules of J.'s supposed blood (the central portion with its bust of J. dates from the fourteenth century). Three views, the first two antedating the restoration of 2008:
http://tinyurl.com/3awxls
http://tinyurl.com/27j6za
http://tinyurl.com/36e9y4p
The ampoules themselves (in the first photo, their housing has been set into a different base):
http://santiebeati.it/immagini/Original/29200/29200J.JPG
http://tinyurl.com/3z922ur
The following views should provide some idea of the housing's size and thus of that of the ampoules as well:
http://tinyurl.com/2f5wau
http://tinyurl.com/46lqdb
J. (at far right) as portrayed on Antonio Baboccio's early fifteenth-century tomb (1402) of cardinal Enrico Minutolo in the cappella Minutolo of Naples' cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/3046554.jpg
The tomb as seen in its full height:
http://i41.tinypic.com/2w6ys81.jpg
The tomb's central panel of the Nativity:
http://tinyurl.com/42lpcut
The bone fragments believed to be J.'s that were translated from Montevergine in 1497 as displayed in their container in Naples' cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta:
http://tinyurl.com/ktv3ws
Buon San Gennaro a tutti e tutte!
--John Dillon
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