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Further visuals for Thomas of Canterbury:
a) Christ Church cathedral, Canterbury (Kent):
Site of T.'s martyrdom:
http://www.rozspringer.com/images/CanterburyCathedral.jpg
Becket window 4 (ca. 1215-1220):
http://tinyurl.com/y99wacy
A pilgrim's badge in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York showing the saint's shrine prior to its destruction in the sixteenth century:
http://tinyurl.com/cag8u2l
http://worldvisitguide.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000022433.html
Pilgrim's badges for visits to this shrine have survived in some number. See the examples on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/cyjz9fp
b) The originally late twelfth-century église Saint-Thomas de Cantorbéry at Mont-Saint-Aignan (Seine-Maritime) in Normandy, commissioned by Henry II in 1173. English-language and French-language accounts are here:
http://tinyurl.com/ycw8c3
http://tinyurl.com/ydsevd
Some expandable views:
http://tinyurl.com/ylcfe5
c) Two scenes of Thomas of Canterbury (T. with three monks; T. martyred by three knights) in a later twelfth-century psalter and hymnal for the Use of the abbey of Saint-Fuscien in Amiens (Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 19, fol. 8):
http://tinyurl.com/ctp2hb3
Detail views:
http://tinyurl.com/d3whgvj
http://tinyurl.com/c3pbsrp
d) Thomas of Canterbury (center) in the late twelfth-century apse mosaics of the basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Nuova, Monreale:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2575093180_0101779142_b.jpg
e) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in a late twelfth-century wall painting in the iglesia de San Nicolás in Soria (Castilla y León). The painting is exceptional in that it shows Thomas being stabbed in the back rather than struck in the head or the neck (for another instance, see below at item ee). Linked to here are two news reports from a few of years ago with different views of it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8029320.stm
http://iconosmedievales.blogspot.com/2009/11/csi-soria.html
and a brief BBC film clip showing more of the painting:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8192655.stm
Just as Thomas' early depiction in the apse mosaics at Monreale has been ascribed to the influence of one of Henry II's daughters (Joanna / Giovanna, queen of Sicily), so this painting has been ascribed to the influence of another daughter (Eleanor / Leonor, queen of Castille).
f) Reliefs on the late twelfth-century baptismal font (ca. 1190-1200) in the church at Lyngsjö (Skåne län) showing Henry II, the murderers, and Thomas of Canterbury' martyrdom:
http://tinyurl.com/9scjdf
http://tinyurl.com/73a7qb
More views of this font are here (scroll down to Døbefont):
http://tinyurl.com/93aqa6
g) A late twelfth-century reliquary casket (châsse) with scenes of Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
http://tinyurl.com/27s42cx
h) Some of the numerous Becket reliquary châsses made at Limoges in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries:
1) Ornamental reliquary châsse (ca. 1180) with scenes of the martyrdom, now in the British Museum, London:
http://tinyurl.com/3ykvus6
2) Another (ca. 1180-1190) now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London:
http://tinyurl.com/d2f92tt
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Becket_casket.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/c6lz8gz
3) Two more (ca. 1190-1200 or a little later), now in the Musée national du Moyen Âge (Musée de Cluny), Paris:
http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/ang/pages/page_id18020_u1l2.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3xmjq6b
and
http://tinyurl.com/2uvzkvj
Other views of these are on the page linked to at 9) below.
4) Another (ca. 1200), now at Limoges, Musée municipal de l'Évêché:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/emolimo/thomas1.htm
5) Another (ca. 1200), now in the Museum Schnütgen (St. Cäcilien), Köln:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2354/2127843870_2dcb1823bb_o.jpg
6) Another (ca. 1205-1215), now in the Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie (musée des Beaux-Arts), Guéret (Creuse):
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/emolimo/thomas2.htm
7) Another (ca. 1210), now in the Musée des beaux-arts in Lyon:
http://tinyurl.com/35c4jgs
8) Another (earlier thirteenth-century), now at Lucca, in the Museo della Cattedrale di Lucca (Museo diocesano), in the second view seen through tinted glass:
http://www.scuola.com/arte_storia/arte_becket/imgs/scheda_lucca.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3522/3837386490_88c39bba7c_o.jpg
Rear and side views of this object are shown toward the bottom of the page linked to at 9) below.
9) Other Becket reliquary châsses are shown here (images begin about a fifth of the way down the page):
http://tinyurl.com/9jz8ll
10) A plaque from such a reliquary châsse (late twelfth-century), now in the Musée du Louvre in Paris:
http://tinyurl.com/3a362o7
11) Yet another such plaque (ca. 1220-1222), now in the Cleveland Museum of Art (the second photograph is by Genevra Kornbluth):
http://www.oberlin.edu/images/Art336/cant-0017.JPG
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/CMAThos.jpg
i) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as portrayed in a copper gilt relief of ca. 1200 in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin:
http://tinyurl.com/3o5ugnz
j) Thomas of Caterbury's late originally twelfth-/early thirteenth-century church (an Augustinian foundation; portal dated 1202) at Caramanico Terme (PE) in Abruzzo:
Italian-language accounts with multiple views:
http://www.abruzzovacanze.net/vr.php/it/24
http://www.abruzzoverdeblu.it/?id=36
Single views:
http://tinyurl.com/928sxh
http://tecweb.unich.it/prog2004-11/particolare_san_tommaso.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/2ondr4
k) The originally late twelfth-century chiesa di San Tomaso (consecrated, 1194) in Riva del Garda (TN) in Trentino-Alto Adige:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/caschmitz/186364993/
http://www.comprensorioc9.tn.it/Info/vwRivaChiesaSTomaso.asp?ID=print
http://tinyurl.com/28wov5z
l) Thomas of Canterbury's originally late twelfth- / thirteenth-century church at Cabriolo di Fidenza (PR) in Emilia, once a Templar chapel and now in private ownership:
http://www.templarioggi.it/Templari_oggi_le_commanderie_21.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yd3j9n
m) The originally late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century église Saint-Thomas-de-Canterbury, Mur-de-Barrez (Aveyron), east end up to the transept largely destroyed by Calvinists in ca. 1539:
http://tinyurl.com/y9mb9gy
http://tinyurl.com/cdjg6xy
http://tinyurl.com/cfqczd3
http://tinyurl.com/c5pu73h
http://tinyurl.com/cfqczd3
A surviving radiating chapel:
http://tinyurl.com/cx32mbh
n) An early thirteenth-century liturgical comb from England with Becket scenes, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
http://tinyurl.com/2c83czx
o) The early thirteenth-century Becket window in the cathédrale Notre-Dame, Chartres:
http://tinyurl.com/ye4j2u4
p) The heavily restored, seemingly early thirteenth-century Becket window in the north choir of the cathédrale Saint-Étienne, Sens:
http://www.medievalart.org.uk/Sens/23_Pages/Sens_Bay23_key.htm
q) This article in _Vidimus_ offers an English-language discussion of, and some expandable views of, earlier thirteenth-century Beckett windows at Sens and elsewhere:
http://vidimus.org/issues/issue-14/feature/
r) Genevra Kornbluth has a page of views of twelfth- and thirteenth-century liturgical vestments said to have been worn by Becket while at Sens and now in display in the cathedral treasury there (do we know when these were first associated with him?):
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/VestmentsBecket.html
s) The Becket Leaves (a thirteenth-century illustrated rhymed Passio of Thomas of Canterbury in French):
www.angelfire.com/pa4/becketleaves/
t) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in a thirteenth-century fresco in Pavia's chiesa di San Lanfranco:
http://tinyurl.com/2fpwrmp
u) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in a fresco of ca. 1260 formerly in the episcopal place at Treviso (TV) in the Veneto and now in that see's diocesan museum:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3505/3972213586_3e47cd62f1_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2479/3972215200_10e0d6799a_b.jpg
In that first view, note the domes in the representation of Canterbury cathedral. It's thought that the artist was familiar with San Marco in Venice.
v) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in the late thirteenth-century (ca. 1285-1290) Livre d'images de Madame Marie (Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 81r):
http://tinyurl.com/ybuwf3e
w) An expandable view of Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 12v):
http://tinyurl.com/387oxxd
x) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted an early fourteenth-century panel in a window in the Lucy chapel, Christ Church cathedral, Oxford (photographs by Gordon Plumb):
http://tinyurl.com/ydg6fxn
Context:
http://tinyurl.com/yba2k4q
y) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century wall painting (ca. 1330-1340) in the Church of St Peter ad Vincula, South Newington (Oxon):
http://www.paintedchurch.org/snewtbec.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yesjzpy
z) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century (1st or 2d quarter; attrib. to the Maître de Fauvel) copy of a French-language collection of saint's lives (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 183, fol. 195v):
http://tinyurl.com/yjwgs9y
aa) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century (2d quarter) copy of a French-language collection of saint's lives (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 185, fol. 87r):
http://tinyurl.com/ye8n7nu
bb) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century (1348) copy of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 241, fol 26v):
http://tinyurl.com/ybd8l4g
cc) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as portrayed in a fourteenth-century roof boss in the Cathedral Church of St Peter, Exeter:
http://tinyurl.com/ybwmumk
dd) Thomas of Canterbury (third row from the top, second from left) as depicted in one of twenty-six window panels (ca. 1400) from the Marienkirche in Wismar (Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) re-mounted in the same city's Kirche Heiligen Geist:
http://tinyurl.com/c8ey5rw
ee) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century (ca. 1414) breviary for the Use of Paris (Châteauroux, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 226v):
http://tinyurl.com/cfa89cy
ff) Two scenes from Meister Francke's earlier fifteenth-century Altarpiece of St. Thomas Becket (mid-1430s), now in the Kunsthalle in Hamburg:
T.'s entry into Canterbury:
http://tinyurl.com/yb3q3o
T.'s martyrdom:
http://tinyurl.com/yarm7y
gg) Thomas of Canterbury as depicted in a mid-fifteenth-century glass window panel (early 1450s) in the Beauchamp Chapel, St Mary, Warwick (photographs by Gordon Plumb):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4898144814/
Detail view:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4898181727/
hh) Thomas of Canterbury (at upper left) as depicted in a later fifteenth-century glass window in Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford (Suffolk; photograph by Gordon Plumb):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2230905801/
ii) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in a later fifteenth-century (ca. 1450-1500) alabaster panel now in the British Museum, London:
http://tinyurl.com/ykujtkj
jj) Two later fifteenth-century alabaster panels from a dismantled altarpiece with Becket scenes, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London:
http://tinyurl.com/ydr3uze
http://tinyurl.com/333fg4b
and
http://tinyurl.com/33w34bv
http://tinyurl.com/ybpu7yv
kk) Thomas of Canterbury's consecration as depicted on another later fifteenth-century alabaster panel in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London:
http://tinyurl.com/33cc33j
http://tinyurl.com/yaq6kgr
ll) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in a later fifteenth-century (ca. 1480-1490) copy of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 244, fol. 29bisv):
http://tinyurl.com/ycv83qp
Best,
John Dillon
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