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A few further portrayals of Thomas the Apostle (not including scenes of his Doubting/Incredulity or of his receipt of the Belt of the Theotokos/BVM):
a) as depicted in the very late fifth- or early sixth-century mosaics of the Cappella Arcivescovile (a.k.a. Cappella di Sant'Andrea) in Ravenna:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33563858@N00/5779233595
b) as depicted in the earlier sixth-century mosaics (betw. 527 and 548) of the basilica di San Vitale in Ravenna:
http://www.mosaicocidm.it/Mosaico/images//immagini_scheda/ra_sv_063-med.jpg
c) as depicted (second from left) in the earlier to mid-sixth-century mosaics of the presbytery arch (carefully restored, 1890-1900) in the Basilica Eufrasiana in Poreč:
http://tinyurl.com/pak3fch
d) as portrayed in relief (at upper right; at upper left, St. Mercurius) on a leaf of the mid-tenth-century ivory Harbaville Triptych in the Musée du Louvre in Paris:
http://tinyurl.com/2fxlfnn
e) as depicted in the earlier eleventh-century mosaics (restored betw. 1953 and 1962) of the katholikon of the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis:
http://tinyurl.com/7tphnpw
f) as depicted (at far left) in the seemingly late eleventh-century mosaics of the apostles in the central apse of the basilica di Santa Maria Assunta on Torcello:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/51426879.jpg
g) as depicted (at left; at right, St. Philip the Apostle) in the earlier twelfth-century mosaics (ca. 1143) of the basilica di Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (a.k.a. chiesa della Martorana) in Palermo:
http://tinyurl.com/23oba3r
Detail view (T.; greatly expandable):
http://tinyurl.com/2whap6x
h) as depicted (at lower right) in the earlier twelfth-century apse mosaics (completed in 1148) of the basilica cattedrale della Trasfigurazione in Cefalù:
http://www.wga.hu/art/zgothic/mosaics/3cefalu/5cefalu.jpg
i) as depicted in the later twelfth-century frescoes (betw. 1176 and 1200) of the church of St. George in Staraya Ladoga:
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=11&id=1431
Detail view:
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=11&id=1435
j) as portrayed in the earlier thirteenth-century jamb statues (ca. 1225-1240; T. customarily identified by his carpenter's square, though St. Jude too sometimes is shown with one) of the central portal of the west front of the cathédrale de Notre-Dame in Amiens:
http://www.limen-arcanum.org/exterieur/images/thomas.jpg
Detail view:
http://www.limen-arcanum.org/exterieur/images/thomas2.jpg
Cleaning of the sculptures of the west front in 2000 revealed traces of polychrome still present on the figures. At right here is a suggestion, based on those traces, of how this statue of Thomas would have appeared when the paint was fresh:
http://www.limen-arcanum.org/exterieur/images/matthieu_thomas_c.jpg
k) as depicted (martyrdom scene) in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 5r [image greatly expandable]):
http://tinyurl.com/pj2domt
l) as depicted (martyrdom scene) in an illumination in the late thirteenth-century (ca. 1285-1290) Livre d'images de Madame Marie (Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 71v):
http://tinyurl.com/3agatae
m) as depicted in the late thirteenth- or very early fourteenth-century frescoes, attributed to Manuel Panselinos, in the Protaton church on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/3vdpetk
n) as depicted (martyrdom scene) in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in the nave of the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica 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/7jma222
o) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (ca. 1335) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Arsenal 5080, fol. 84r):
http://tinyurl.com/lfw6cnp
p) as depicted in a later fourteenth-century Novgorod School panel painting (1360s?) now in the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg:
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=557
q) as portrayed in relief (third from right) on the late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century tomb of St. Wendelin in his basilica in Sankt Wendel:
http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/83/St.Wendel_Dom_13.JPG
r) as portrayed by a statue in the late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century St. Anthony Altar in the Stiftskirche St. Viktor in Xanten:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3501/3202697763_5fb56a413c_b.jpg
The altar (shutters opened):
http://mabuse.aminus3.com/image/2008-04-10.html
s) as depicted (at right; at left, St. Anthony of Egypt) in a panel painting, attributed to Jan Baegert of Wesel, on the outside of the left shutter of the late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century St. Anthony Altar in the Stiftskirche St. Viktor in Xanten:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/3206154490/
t) as depicted (martyrdom scene) in a panel painting on an earlier fifteenth-century altar in the Filialkirche St. Thomas in Obere Fellach (Land Kärnten):
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/images/7003706.JPG
u) as portrayed (at left; at right, St. Jude with his axe) in the seemingly earlier sixteenth-century stone retable mounted above the entrance to the église de la Nativité-de-Notre-Dame in Balléville (Vosges):
http://tinyurl.com/p3cvzkp
v) as depicted by Theofanis Strelitzas-Bathas (a.k.a. Theophanes the Cretan) in the earlier sixteenth-century frescoes (1545 and 1546) of the katholikon of the Stavronikita monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/krv2vbc
Best,
John Dillon
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