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Further medieval images of St. Benedict of Nursia and of Montecassino:
a) Benedict (at left) and other monks -- one holding the Rule -- as depicted in an earlier eleventh-century Psalms and prayers (prob. before 1023; London, BL, MS Arundel 155, fol. 133r):
http://tinyurl.com/psl7c7z
Description and detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/oronwd7
b) Benedict delivering his Rule to St. Maurus and other monks as depicted in an earlier twelfth-century copy (1129) of the _Regula Sancti Benedicti_, formerly in the abbaye de St.-Gilles at today's Saint-Gilles-du-Gard (Gard), now London, BL, MS Add. 16979, fol. 21v:
http://tinyurl.com/mquj2f4
c) Benedict explaining his Rule to St. Maurus as depicted in a full-page illumination at the beginning of a twelfth-century copy of the _Regula Sancti Benedicti_ (Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 829, fol. 54v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht7/IRHT_105654-p.jpg
A clearer view (grayscale):
http://tinyurl.com/mt5eryk
d) Benedict between two monks as depicted at the beginning of a mid-twelfth-century copy (ca. 1151) of the _Regula Sancti Benedicti_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition latine 214, fol. 116r):
http://tinyurl.com/7lp454v
e) Benedict as depicted in an early thirteenth-century fresco revealed by Allied bombing in 1944 in an apsidiole of the chiesa del Crocefisso in Cassino (FR) in southern Lazio and now in the cappella di Santa Anna at the abbey of Montecassino:
Before restoration:
http://tinyurl.com/79xqxda
As restored:
http://www.cosmati.it/Biblia%20Pauperum%20images/Montecassino/mon9.JPG
An illustrated, Italian-language account of the frescoes to which this belongs, identifying the gray-bearded central figure of the three medallions as St. Maurus, the younger, book-holding figure on the left as St. Benedict, and the female figure on the right as St. Scholastica:
http://www.cosmati.it/Affreschi%20della%20Ciociaria%20pagine%20web/Montecassino.htm
That identification of the two male figures is almost certainly erroneous: In a Benedictine context one would expect primacy of place (here: the central position) to be accorded to Benedict. He, moreover, is typically represented as a gray-bearded father-figure (the exceptions usually have to do with incidents from his life) and Maurus is typically represented as being much younger than his mentor Benedict.
f) Benedict holding the Rule as depicted in a thirteenth-century fresco in the monastero (del Sacro Speco) di San Benedetto in Subiaco (RO) in Lazio:
http://www.uciimtorino.it/istituzioni_monastiche_m_s_benedetto.jpg
g) Benedict as portrayed on a thirteenth-century enameled copper plaque from Limoges, now in the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków:
http://tinyurl.com/mgd3vr6
h) Benedict instructing monks as depicted at the beginning of a later thirteenth-century copy (betw. 1267 and 1278) of the _Regula Sancti Benedicti_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 12834, fol. 104r):
http://tinyurl.com/84r4lbm
i) Benedict (in the panel facing the viewer, at left in the upper register) as depicted in a March calendar composition in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and ca. 1321/22) 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/yzfxkmn
j) Benedict instructing Caesarius of Heisterbach as depicted at the outset of an earlier fourteenth-century copy of Caesarius' _Dialogus miraculorum_ (Düsseldorf, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Hs. C27, fol. 2r):
http://tinyurl.com/pwnuxtb
k) Benedict (at left) as depicted by Simone di Filippo in a later fourteenth-century triptych (ca. 1380) in the Museo di Santo Stefano in Bologna (at center, a pope St. Sixtus [probably Sixtus II]; at right, St. Proculus of Bologna):
http://tinyurl.com/maqbsj2
l) Benedict (at right, directing St. Maurus to save St. Placidus from drowning) as depicted by Giovanni di Consalvo in the earlier fifteenth-century frescoes (later 1430s) of the Chiostro degli Aranci in the Badia di Firenze in Florence:
http://tinyurl.com/klqsug9
m) Benedict as depicted by Beato Angelico in his earlier fifteenth-century fresco (early 1440s) of the Crucifixion and Saints in the chapter room of the convento (now Museo nazionale) di San Marco in Florence:
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/a/angelico/09/corridor/crucifi1.html
n) Benedict (at left, directing St. Maurus to save St. Placidus from drowning) as depicted by Filippo Lippi in an earlier fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1440-1445) in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC:
http://www.briggl.com/galleries/nationalgallery/natgal0050.jpg
o) Benedict and St. Scholastica at table during their final visit as depicted by a fifteenth-century Umbrian master working in the upper church of the monastero (del Sacro Speco) di San Benedetto in Subiaco:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/edithosb/369885637/
http://tinyurl.com/npfwno8
p) Benedict as depicted by Andrea Mantegna in his mid-fifteenth-century St. Luke altarpiece in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan:
http://tinyurl.com/k4d5q8a
q) Benedict as depicted by Antonello da Messina in his later fifteenth-century polyptych of St. Gregory the Great (1473) in the Museo regionale di Messina:
http://tinyurl.com/l6yjdo2
Best,
John Dillon
On 03/21/15, Gordon Plumb <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Two scenes originally from the mid 12thC. Benedict window at St Denis:
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> Twycross, St James, Leicestershire. I, 4c, Benedict hitting monk tempted by devil from staying long at his prayers:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2364192121
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> Twycross, St James, Leicestershire, I, 4a, St Benedict has vision of Maurus saving Placid from drowning:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2366178841
> The devil at the head of this panel is from another scene, Benedict being fed in a cave by Romanus. vThe kneeling figure of Romanus from that St Denbis scene is also at Twycross and the figure of St Benedict is in a window of the chapel at Raby Castle, Durham.
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