medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
What's with Holy Mary feeding Saint Bernhard with her milk? A nice one
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yours
Karl
Am 29.12.2011 um 15:30 schrieb John Dillon:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> On 12/29/11, George FERZOCO wrote:
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>> The image Gordon sent to the list, of a vengeful Thomas Becket hovering in the air, reminds me to ask the list's members about the post-mortem representation of saints in the visual arts. Was it common for them to be portrayed as flying or hovering in the air, horizontally or swooping downward? Or perhaps in an upright position, but suspended above the earthly actors?
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> I would look for instances in representations of already deceased saints making presentations to the living. Here's a perhaps familiar example (Peter and Paul presenting a staff and a book to Dominic of Caleruega as depicted by Beato Angelico in a predella panel of his Coronation of the Virgin altarpiece in the Louvre):
> http://cache2.artprintimages.com/lrg/29/2941/WXXRD00Z.jpg
> Detail view:
> http://tinyurl.com/c24hcpg
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> Best,
> John Dillon
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