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Herewith a link to an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 18. October (including St. Luke, apostle and evangelist; St. Asclepiades of Antioch; Sts. Proculus, Eutyches, and Acutius; St. Amabilis of Riom):
http://tinyurl.com/c9yq7zc
Further to St. Luke, apostle and evangelist:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the two links to views of the lead coffin at Padua containing the skeleton believed to be his no longer function. Use these instead:
http://tinyurl.com/cc2cdt5
http://tinyurl.com/c43au5l
In the same notice's treatment of Luke the painter and specifically of the painting in Padua supposedly by him, for 'Madonna constantinopolitana' please read 'Madonna costantinopolitana'.
In the same notice, after the links to views of manuscript illuminations of L. painting a portrait of the BVM add this link to a view of the same subject as treated by Jacob Beinhart in an early sixteenth-century high-relief wood sculpture (1506) in the National Museum in Warsaw:
http://tinyurl.com/c34sufp
In the same notice's 'A few other portrayals of L.', add before item a) this view of L. as depicted (at upper left in the leaf at left, facing St. John the Evangelist) on the earlier ninth-century Harrach Diptych (ca. 810) in the Schnütgen Museum in Köln (on long-term loan from the Sammlung Ludwig):
http://ruicon.ru/images/DPI/rezba/rezba_kost/00285.jpg
In the same notice's 'A few other portrayals of L.', at item c) for 'frescoes' please read 'mosaics'.
In the same notice's 'A few other portrayals of L.', add between items c) and d) this link to a view of L. as depicted in a full-page miniature in the eleventh-century Codex Theodosianus (a Gospels lectionary) belonging to the St. Catherine's monastery in St. Catherine in Egypt's Sinai governorate (cod. gr. 204):
http://tinyurl.com/clltudn
In the same notice's 'A few other portrayals of L.' add between items e) and f) these links to views of L. as depicted in or shortly after 1219 in the south choir of the church of the Holy Ascension in the Žiča monastery near Kraljevo (Raška dist.) in Serbia:
http://www.spcportal.org/images/upload/Image/Zica/z_luka.jpg
http://www.maletic.org/serbian-frescoes/single-gallery/2910193
In the same notice's 'A few other portrayals of L.' add between items f) and g) this link to a view of the prophet Jeremiah bearing L. on his shoulders as depicted (at far left) in an earlier thirteenth-century lancet window (betw. 1221 and 1230) in bay 122 of the cathedral of Chartres:
http://tinyurl.com/cvc6aex
and this link to a view of L. as depicted in a thirteenth-century mosaic in one of the pendentives of the Ascension Cupola in Venice's basilica di San Marco:
http://tinyurl.com/ckcot8c
and this link to a view of L. as depicted in a later thirteenth-century fresco (betw. 1260 and 1263) in one of the pendentives under the dome of the church of the Holy Apostles in the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/d269b75
In the same notice's 'A few other portrayals of L.' add between items i) and j) this link to a view of L. as depicted in the later fourteenth-century frescoes (1360s and 1370s; restored in 1968-1970) in the church of St. Demetrius in Marko's monastery at Markova Sušica (near Skopje) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/c2hnrt7
In the same notice's 'A few other portrayals of L.' add after item j) this view of Luke with a donor as depicted in a panel of a later fifteenth-century (1470) stained-glass window from the cathedral of Trier remounted in the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Shrewsbury (photograph courtesy of Gordon Plumb):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3167207785/
In 2011 Gordon Plumb also posted links to various images of L.'s image as an evangelist according to the standard Christian exegesis of the tetramorph of Ezekiel's vision (Ezek 1:10):
http://tinyurl.com/cyw39uu
Further to Proculus, Eutyches, and Acutius:
In that earlier post's notice of these saints, the final link to the views of Pozzuoli's ancient temple incorporated into that city's medieval cathedral of San Procolo no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.trisciuoglio.it/fotovarie/duomo.jpg
Further to Amabilis of Riom:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the first of the three links to views of the basilique Saint-Amable in Riom (Puy-de-Dôme) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/bnvypxq
Best,
John Dillon
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