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Further to Nicholas of Myra (and of Bari):
Italia nell'Arte Medievale now has two pages of views of the basilica di San Nicola in Bari:
http://www.medioevo.org/artemedievale/Pages/Puglia/SanNicolaaBari.html
http://www.medioevo.org/artemedievale/Pages/Puglia/SanNicolaaBari2.html
In the set from 2010 of portrayals of Nicholas now use these links for:
j) N. as depicted on an icon (detail view) donated to the church of St. Nicholas in Bari by the Serbian tsar Stefan Uroš IV Dušan in 1327:
http://www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gallery/2390/
and
p) N. and scenes from his Life as portrayed on a fourteenth-century relief mounted on the exterior of the basilica di San Nicola in Bari:
www.stnicholascenter.org/stnic/images/bari-bas-relief-lg.jpg
In the same set of visuals, at r) the now dismembered Quarantesi Altarpiece (ca. 1425) should have been identified as a work of Gentile da Fabriano.
Further portrayals:
Nicholas 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/d7r8kjz
Nicholas as depicted in the later thirteenth-century frescoes (1259) in the church of Sts. Nicholas and Panteleimon at Boyana near the Bulgarian capital of Sofia:
http://galenf.com/Bulgaria/36/bu_0015.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/d5sdgmf
The fresco's position in the church:
http://tinyurl.com/cxxzer9
Nicholas (at right; at left, St. Sabas of Jerusalem) as depicted in a December calendar composition in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/bszau2d
A page of views of other portrayals of Nicholas in this church:
http://tinyurl.com/83unx8g
Nicholas as depicted in an early sixteenth-century icon (ca. 1502) by the painter Dionisy now in the icon museum of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery at Goritsy in Russia's Vologda oblast:
http://tinyurl.com/cm2kpeh
http://tinyurl.com/dxqmhyy
Best again,
John Dillon
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