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Cosmas and Damian: some updates/corrections.
>The originally thirteenth-century church of Ag. Anargyroi at the village of Kipoula in Oitylo (Lakonia prefecture) on the Peloponnese,
frescoed in 1265 (NB: The images can be a little slow to load): http://www.zorbas.de/maniguide/scans/kip1.jpg
>This church's portraits of its titulars Cosmas and Damian: http://www.zorbas.de/maniguide/scans/kip2.jpg
Earlier this year the township's name was changed from Oitylo to East Mani.
>Expandable views of three earlier fifteenth-century paintings (1430s?) by Beato Angelico having to do with Cosmas and Damian will be found on this page (a little more than halfway down): http://www.artunframed.com/angelico.htm
Expandable views of these and of five other surviving predella panels with scenes of Cosmas and Damian by Beato Angelico for his now dismembered San Marco altarpiece (betw. 1438 and 1440) are here:
http://tinyurl.com/3cmj3wc
>Cosmas and Damian as portrayed as portrayed in a terracotta relief (between 1428 and 1445) in the old sacristy of Florence's basilica di
San Lorenzo: http://www.wga.hu/art/d/donatell/2_mature/sacristy/1sacri08.jpg
The relief is by Donatello.
>Cosmas and Damian as depicted (flanking, in the upper register, the three boys in the fiery furnace and, in the lower register, their own
three martyred brothers Leontius, Euprepius, and Anthimus) in a sixth-century wall painting from a house in Wadi Sarga in Egypt, now in
the British Museum in London: http://tinyurl.com/34c2joy
The British Museum's page on this painting:
http://tinyurl.com/3zthgpf
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Further visuals for Cosmas and Damian:
a) C. as depicted in an earlier eleventh-century mosaic (restored between 1953 and 1962) in the katholikon of the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis:
http://tinyurl.com/3wtm7uc
b) The originally eleventh-century church of Ag. Anargyroi in Kastoria (Kastoria prefecture) in northwestern Greece:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nones/5020283509/
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2616/3754950501_18cf62ac9b_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2509/3755841064_da53edc9cc_b.jpg
A set of expandable exterior views, incl. one of the worn exterior fresco of C. and D., occurs on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/6ky6ymf
An illustrated, English-language account concentrating on this church's late twelfth-century frescoes:
http://tinyurl.com/y8z6tt5
c) An expandable view of C. and D. attaching the black leg of an Ethiopian to a white man whose diseased leg they had removed, as depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 132r):
http://tinyurl.com/3cjxvl5
d) A partial view of C. and D. as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1330) of the church of the Holy Savior (Sv. Spas) at Kuceviste in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/3kv3ygt
Detail (C., full-length):
http://tinyurl.com/3max6q4
e) C. and D. (at left and center; at right, St. Panteleimon) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century (1330s) frescoes of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peæ at Peæ 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/3jgsftt
C.:
http://tinyurl.com/3mvhn47
D.:
http://tinyurl.com/3ud7jap
f) C. and D. as depicted in a later fourteenth-century fresco (1371?) in the katholikon of the Vatopedi monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/3zlqvxo
g) An expandable view of C. and D. being saved from drowning as depicted by Zanobi Strozzi in an earlier fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1435) now in the Museo nazionale di San Marco in Florence:
http://tinyurl.com/3lwne9y
h) C. and D. attaching the black leg of the Ethiopian to the sick white man as depicted by the Master of Los Balbases in a later fifteenth-century
panel painting seemingly from Burgos and now in the Wellcome Library, London:
http://nicholasspyer.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/img_1500.jpg
i) C. and D. (lower register, C. at left) as depicted by Theofanis Strelitzas-Bathas (Theophanes the Cretan) in an earlier sixteenth-century fresco (1545 or 1546) in the katholikon of the Stavronikita monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/3my9xsc
Best,
John Dillon
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