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Some medieval images of St. Fiacre:
a) as depicted (at left; at right, his accuser Houpdée) in the mid- to later fourteenth-century Breviary of Charles V (betw. 1347 and 1380; Use of Paris; Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 1052, fol. 486v):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84525491/f982.image
b)as depicted in a fifteenth-century glass window (w. 19) in the église Notre-Dame in Caudebec-en-Caux (Seine-Maritime):
http://www.therosewindow.com/pilot/Caudebec/w19-A1.htm
c) as portrayed in a fifteenth-century statue in the église Saint-Taurin at Évreux:
http://tinyurl.com/nnqfh3
d) as portrayed in a fifteenth-century statue at the abbey church of Saint-Germain d'Auxerre in Auxerre, formerly in the church of Sacy (Yonne):
http://tinyurl.com/md3t8x
e) as portrayed in a fifteenth-century English alabaster statue in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O70608/st-fiacre-statuette-unknown/
f) as portrayed (at center; at left St. Margaret; at right, the BVM and Christ Child) in a fifteenth-century polychromed wooden statue in the Musée départemental Breton in Quimper:
http://tinyurl.com/pr5tvuu
A closer view:
http://tinyurl.com/opwmgm4
g) as portrayed (at right; at center, St. Faro of Meaux; at left, Fiacre's accuser Houpdée) on a fifteenth-century pilgrim's badge from his major cult site at Saint-Fiacre-en-Brie, now in the Musée national du Moyen Âge (Musée de Cluny), Paris:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/joconde/0372/m500303_97-011874_p.jpg
The museum's record for this item in the database Joconde:
http://tinyurl.com/nsbcyu8
h) as depicted in the earlier fifteenth-century Hours of Joseph Bonaparte (so-called; ca. 1401-1425; Use of Paris; Paris, Bnf, ms. Latin 10538, fol. 225r):
http://tinyurl.com/owfb4ha
i) as depicted (illumination at right; the one at left shows the decollation of John the Baptist) in the early fifteenth-century Hours of René of Anjou (ca. 1410; London, BL, MS Egerton 1070, fol. 100v):
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=48378
j) as depicted in the early fifteenth-century Châteauroux Breviary (ca. 1414; Use of Paris; Châteauroux, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 313v):
http://tinyurl.com/mubm9d
http://tinyurl.com/ll2jjp
k) as depicted (two scenes, the first with St. Faro of Meaux and Fiacre's accuser Houpdée) in the earlier fifteenth-century Hours of Tritan Du Perier and Isabeau de Montauban (ca. 1430-1440; Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, ms. 1834, fol. 106r; image greatly expandable):
http://tinyurl.com/q5vsbby
l) as depicted (third thumbnail from bottom; image expandable) in the Suffrages of the earlier to mid-fifteenth-century Hours of Françoise de Dinan (ca. 1435-1450; a.k.a. Hours of Catherine de Rohan and of Françoise de Dinan; Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, ms. 34bis [pt. 2 of ms. 15942], fol. 89r):
http://www.bildindex.de/obj15000014.html#|home
Closer view (image greatly expandable):
http://tinyurl.com/p8jjhyo
m) as depicted in a mid-fifteenth-century English alabaster statue from Nottingham now in the Cloisters Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f20%3A177v
n) as depicted in grisaille by Jean le Tavernier in the mid-fifteenth-century Hours of Philip of Burgundy (ca. 1451-1460; Use of Paris; Den Haag, KB, ms. 76 F 2, fol. 272r):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f2%3A272r_min
o) as depicted in the mid-fifteenth-century Hours of Simon de Varie (ca. 1455; from Paris; Use of Paris; Den Haag, KB, Ms. 74 G 37, fol. 85r):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_74g37%3A085r_min
p) as depicted (foreground; behind, his accuser Houpdée) by Lieven van Lathem in the later fifteenth-century Prayer Book of Charles the Bold (1469; Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum and Library, Ms. 37, fol. 38r):
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=1935
q) as depicted in a later fifteenth-century book of hours for the Use of Paris (ca. 1470; Chambéry, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1, fol. 188r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht1/IRHT_035189-p.jpg
r) as depicted (at left with Houpdée; at right, with bp. St. Faro of Meaux) as depicted in a later fifteenth-century copy from Bruges of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay followed by the _Festes nouvelles_ attributed to Jean Golein (ca. 1460-1470; Mâcon, Médiathèque municipale, ms. 3, fol. 193r):
http://tinyurl.com/nllke8
s) as depicted (at center) in the late fifteenth- or very early sixteenth-century frescoes in the église Saint-Martin at Sillegny (Moselle):
http://claude.hinsinger.free.fr/lorraine/sillegny/legny14.htm
t) as depicted in a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century book of hours (Use of Amiens; Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 201, fol. 140r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht3/IRHT_061674-p.jpg
u) as depicted in the Suffrages of an early sixteenth-century book of hours from the southern Netherlands (ca. 1500-1510; Use of Rome; Den Haag, KB, Ms. 76 F 20, fol. 177v):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f20%3A177v
v) as depicted in an earlier sixteenth-century glass window panel from Lorraine (ca. 1510-1515) in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles:
http://tinyurl.com/ntxm8p6
w) as depicted in a panel of an earlier sixteenth-century window (w. 19; ca. 1520-1530) in the église Saint-Remi in Ceffonds (Haute-Marne):
http://www.therosewindow.com/pilot/Ceffonds/w19-a2.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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