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There is also a bit on canons dancing in cathedral labyrinths in Craig Wright, The Maze and the Warrior (2004).
Cheers,
Jim
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Going further back, see James Miller, _Measures of Wisdom: The Cosmic Dance in Classical and Christian Antiquity_ (Univ. of Toronto Press, 1986).
Further medieval examples are cited in Tessa Morrison, "The Dance of the Angels, the Mysteries of Pseudo-Dionysius and the Architecture of Gothic Cathedrals", _Analecta Husserliana_ 81 (2004), 299-319.
Best again,
John Dillon
On 07/05/13, Claire Renkin wrote:
> ... I don’t think Constant Mews article “Liturgists and Dance in the Twelfth Century: The Witness of John Beleth and Sicard of Cremona,” in Church History, 78/3 (2009): 512-48 has been mentioned yet.
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> Claire
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> There are dancing cherubs or putti in the background of Ghirlandaio's Nativity of the Virgin in the Cappella Tornabuoni in Florence:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cappella_tornabuoni,_02,_nascita_della_vergine.jpg
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> Baby angels perhaps dance more than grown-up ones.
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> They're not angels, but there is lots of elegant theological dancing on Luca della Robbia's choir gallery, also in Florence, which illustrates Psalm 150:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cantoria_of_Luca_della_Robbia_2009.JPG
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cantoria_Della_Robbia_OPA_Florence_6.jpg
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> Did anyone mention these yet?:
> E. Louis Backman, Religious Dances in the Christian Church and in Popular Medicine. London: Allen & Unwin, 1952.
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> Ezra Gardner Rust, The Music and Dance of the World's Religions A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography of Materials in the English Language. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1996. ToC &c. at amazon:
> http://www.amazon.com/Music-Dance-Worlds-Religions-Comprehensive/dp/0313295611/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372999472&sr=1-1&keywords=9780313295614
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> > On 07/01/13, Genevra Kornbluth wrote:
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> > > On 7/1/2013 1:52 AM, John Dillon wrote:
> > > >Some have supposed that they do dance...
> > > You've made me curious, John. The only visual images with dancing angels that come immediately to mind are late, e.g. Botticelli's Mystic Nativity <http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/sandro-botticelli-mystic-nativity> . Anyone know earlier ones?
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> > Laura Jacobus has already cited an early Trecento example by Giotto in the Arena Chapel in Padova:
> > http://www.wga.hu/art/g/giotto/padova/2virgin/mary07.jpg
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> > Here are a couple of Quattrocento examples:
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> > 1) Beato Angelico, detail of _Last Judgment_ (1420s or early 1430s), Florence, Museo Nazionale di San Marco (angels dancing with saints in Paradise):
> > http://www.backtoclassics.com/images/pics/fraangelico/fraangelico_lastjudgementdetail1.jpg
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> > 2) Antonio Rossellino (attrib.), _Nativity_ (later 1460s or 1470s), altar relief, Piccolomini chapel, Sant'Anna dei Lombardi, Naples:
> > http://fe.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/foto/160000/144800/144792.jpg
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