medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Following the festal calendar presented by the illustrated early eighteenth-century book that Matt is using for this year's "saints of the day", we dealt with pope St. Gregory I / Gregory the Great back on 12. March of this year. 12. March -- Gregory's _dies natalis_ -- was his primary feast day in the general Roman Calendar prior to the latter's reform promulgated in 1969 and is still the day of his commemoration in Orthodox churches that have not adopted the Gregorian calendar.
The collection of links to medieval images of Gregory that I offered then will be found at:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind1503&L=MEDIEVAL-RELIGION&P=R17360&1=MEDIEVAL-RELIGION&9=A&I=-3&J=on&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches&z=4
I'm happy to say -- so little time having passed in the interim -- that link rot has not yet set in. Still, a few alterations seem in order:
1) A more informative version of item g):
Gregory as depicted (at left, flanking Jesus; at right, St. Eustachius / Eustathius Placidas) in the frontispiece to a thirteenth-century copy, from southwestern Russia, of his _Homiliae in Evangelia_ in an early Slavonic translation (St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, РНБ. Погод. 70, fol. 1v):
http://www.nlr.ru/exib/Gospel/drus/img/31.jpg
http://www.nlr.ru/eng/exib/Gospel/drus/31.html
2) Item h) should read "Gregory (perhaps) as depicted in a thirteenth-century fresco in the rupestrian chiesa di Santa Lucia alle Malve in Matera (MT) in Basilicata:
http://www.santaluciamatera.it/f15.jpg ".
Despite the inscription on the painting, the figure's wearing only a bishop's mitre and its great resemblance to a closely contemporary image of St. Donatus (usually taken to be D. of Arezzo) in Matera's chiesa di San Donato have led some to think -- not unreasonably -- that the latter was the painting's original subject.
3) Add after item n):
Gregory (second from left) as depicted by Niccolò di Pietro Gerini in one of four late fourteenth-century panel paintings of the Doctors of the Church (ca. 1380) used for the altarpiece in the cappella maggiore of Florence's basilica della Santa Croce:
http://bobandnellasworld.com/Italy%202009/Florence/SantaCroce/r10_0445f.jpg
4) Add after item p):
Gregory as depicted (at right; in the left foreground, St. Aredius of Gap) in the mid-fifteenth-century frescoes (1451) of the chapelle Saint-Érige at Auron, Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée (Alpes-Maritimes):
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/medieval/en/a050.htm
AND
Gregory as depicted by Antonello da Messina in a later fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1472-1473) in the Museo nazionale in Palermo:
http://tinyurl.com/lmps6l
5) Add after item q):
Gregory as depicted (at right in the central panel) by Michael Pacher in his late fifteenth-century altarpiece of the Doctors of the Church (ca. 1483) in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich:
http://www.wga.hu/art/p/pacher/various/2father1.jpg
6) Add after item r):
Gregory as portrayed by Tommaso Malvito and workshop in an early sixteenth-century marble relief (ca. 1501-1506) in the _Cappella del succorpo_ in Naples' cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria Assunta:
http://tinyurl.com/ose75nc
Best,
John Dillon
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Some images in glass
Oxford, Trinity College, Old Library, third east window, 2a, 1st half 15thC.:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/17682547339
Saint-Nicholas-de-Port, Bay 101, 6a-10a (on left), prior to 1514:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/15630289501
York Minster, Great East window, ih, centre figure), very early 15thC.:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3103907289
Winchester, Hospital of St Cross and St Faith, South transept, north-east clerestory window:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5759439053
and detail:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5759982642
York Minster, NXI, 2b-4b (on right), Early 15thC.:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5019923265
St Neot, St Neot, Cornwall, nIV, second from left:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4007390197
East Harling, St Peter & St Paul, Norfolk, east window, 3e, fragments including St Gregory:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2480761609
York, All Saints North Street, sVI, 2c-3c, Mass of St Gregory 15thC.:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4112609713
Cartmel Priory, Cumbria, nIV, A2-A3, figure on left, early 15thC.:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2161378059/
Gordon P)lumb
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