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Some period-pertinent images of the Conversion of St. Paul (_latiore sensu_, including not just Paul's experience on the road to Damascus but also other events from his commissioning by the Temple to arrest Christians through his baptism by St. Ananias of Damascus [in the Roman Martyrology, separately commemorated today] to his first preaching Christ in synagogues and his escape from Damascus in a basket [Acts 9:1-25]):
a) as depicted (four scenes) in a full-page illumination in the earlier ninth-century First Bible of Charles the Bald (844?; Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 1, fol. 386v):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8455903b/f780.item.zoom
b) as depicted (two scenes: blinded by the light; led into Damascus) in the earlier twelfth-century Admont Bible (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. ser. nov. 2702, fol. 199v):
http://regi.oszk.hu/siteeszkoz/kepek/kiallit/virtualis/3kodex/admont/n29.jpg
c) as depicted (two scenes) in the mid-twelfth-century Childood of Christ and Life of St. Paul window (w. 103):
1) blinded by the light; led into Damascus (panel A1):
http://www.medievalart.org.uk/lemans/103_pages/LeMans_Bay103_PanelA1.htm
2) escapes from Damascus in a basket (panel C3):
http://www.medievalart.org.uk/lemans/103_pages/LeMans_Bay103_PanelC3.htm
d) as depicted (at left, starting from the top: preaches in Damascus; escapes from Damascus in a basket) in a mid-twelfth-century glossed manuscript of the Epistles (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. D.1.13, fol. 1r):
http://www.wga.hu/art/zgothic/miniatur/1101-150/1english/14englis.jpg
e) as depicted (five scenes) in the mid-twelfth-century Bible des comtes de Champagne (ca. 1145; Avranches, Bibliothèque d'Avranches, ms. 2391):
1) blinded by the light (fol. 204r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht7/IRHT_109920-p.jpg
2) led into Damascus (fol. 209v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht7/IRHT_109921-p.jpg
3) cured of his blindness by Ananias (fol. 214v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht18/IRHT_109923-p.jpg
4) baptized by Ananias (fol. 217v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht7/IRHT_109924-p.jpg
5) escapes from Damascus in a basket (fol. 224v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht7/IRHT_109930-p.jpg
f) as depicted (four scenes) in the mid- or slightly later twelfth-century mosaics of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo:
1) his commissioning by the Temple:
http://tinyurl.com/zbzu2gm
2) blinded by the light; led into Damascus:
http://tinyurl.com/gnh23ny
3) baptized by Ananias:
http://tinyurl.com/hxchdn3
https://www.flickr.com/photos/heffelumpen9/6238777253/lightbox/
4) preaches in Damascus; escapes from Damascus in a basket:
http://tinyurl.com/hntrs2n
http://www.marymom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/P1050773.jpg
g) as depicted (escapes from Damascus in a basket) on a later twelfth-century enamel plaque (ca. 1180-1185; probably from a reliquary casket) in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/6288814157/
h) as depicted in the late twelfth-century mosaics (ca. 1182) in the basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Nuova in Monreale:
1) baptized by Ananias:
http://tinyurl.com/hmxlqzd
2) escapes from Damascus in a basket:
http://tinyurl.com/juytctt
http://www.pimeitm.pcn.net/n080629.jpg
i) as depicted in two of four panels of a full-page illumination in the late twelfth-century so-called Bible of Saint Bertin (ca. 1190-1200; Den Haag, KB, ms. 76 F 5, fol. 24v, sc. 2A and 2B):
1) blinded by the light:
http://www.introibo.fr/IMG/jpg/0125conversion3.jpg
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f5%3A024v_min_a2
2) baptized by Ananias:
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f5%3A024v_min_b2
j) as depicted (blinded by the light) in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 27r):
http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/ds/huntington/images//000861A.jpg
k) as depicted (blinded by the light) in the late thirteenth-century (ca. 1285-1290) Livre d'images de Madame Maries (Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 61v):
http://tinyurl.com/yj7mv89
l) as depicted (blinded by the light) in the earlier fourteenth-century Belleville Breviary (ca. 1323-1326; Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 10483, fol. 142v):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8451634m/f286.item.r=.langFR.zoom
m) as depicted (five scenes in three panels) in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
1) his commissioning by the Temple; blinded by the light; led into Damascus
http://tinyurl.com/z2tl8y6
Detail view (Paul after the blinding)
http://tinyurl.com/jz7gca3
2) baptized by Ananias:
http://tinyurl.com/hcjd7mr
3) preaches in Damascus:
http://tinyurl.com/judqezt
n) as depicted (blinded by the light) in the later fourteenth-century Breviary of Charles V (ca. 1364-1370; Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 1052, fol. 330r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84525491/f669.item.zoom
o) as depicted (blinded by the light) by Lorenzo Veneziano on a later fourteenth-century predella panel with scenes of St. Peter and St. Paul (ca. 1369) in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2293/2214719838_e4b77322dc_b.jpg
The panel as a whole:
http://tinyurl.com/z97hspd
p) as depicted (blinded by the light) in a later fourteenth-century copy of Guiard des Moulins' _Grande Bible historiale complétée_ (1371-1372; Den Haag, Museum Meermanno, ms. 10 B 23, fol. 559r):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_mmw_10b23%3A559r_min
q) as depicted in two panel paintings on a predella shutter of the later fourteenth-century so-called Böhmischer Altar (ca. 1375-1380) in the south transept of the Dom St. Peter und Paul in Brandenburg an der Havel (Land Brandenburg):
1) blinded by the light:
http://www.sagen.at/doku/calendar/images/Paulus_Brandenburg.jpg
2) escapes from Damascus in a basket:
http://tinyurl.com/zclwff4
http://tinyurl.com/hwtm296
r) as depicted (blinded by the light) in a late fourteenth-century fresco (ca. 1390) in south transept of the Basilika Mariä Himmelfahrt at Gurk (Kärnten):
http://tinyurl.com/zpjdt3a
s) as depicted (blinded by the light) in an earlier fifteenth-century copy of Marco Polo's _Le devisement du monde_ (ca. 1410-1412; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 2810, fol. 131v):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000858n/f268.item.zoom
t) as depicted (blinded by the light) in an illuminated initial "S" on a detached leaf from a mid-fifteenth-century gradual of north Italian origin (ca. 1440-1450; Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, ms. 41):
http://tinyurl.com/hxxcpuy
http://tinyurl.com/hvl5kda
u) as depicted (blinded by the light) by Jean Fouquet in his now dismembered mid-fifteenth-century Hours of Étienne Chevalier (1450s; this folio in the Musée Condé, Chantilly [Oise], ms. Fr. 71):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Paul.jpg
v) as depicted (blinded by the light) in the mid-fifteenth-century Hours of Simon de Varie (ca. 1455; from Paris; Den Haag, KB, Ms. 74 G 37a, fol. 3v):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_74g37a%3A003v_min
w) as depicted (at lower right; blinded by the light) in a mid-fifteenth-century Bible moralisée from Bruges (ca. 1455-1460; Den Haag, KB, Ms. 76 E 7, fol. 234v):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76e7%3A234v_min
x) as depicted (three scenes) in a later fifteenth-century copy of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (1463; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 50, fol. 242r):
http://tinyurl.com/ybr7orx
y) as depicted (blinded by the light) in a hand-colored woodcut in the Beloit College copy of Hartmann Schedel's late fifteenth-century _Weltchronik_ (_Nuremberg Chronicle_; 1493) at fol. CIIIv:
https://www.beloit.edu/nuremberg/book/images/New%20Testament/big/Conversion%20of%20St.%20Paul%20CIIIv.jpg
z) as depicted in the very late fourteenth- or earlier fifteenth-century Breviary of Martin of Aragon (Paris, BnF, ms. Rothschild 2529, fol. 309v):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000996s/f620.item.zoom
Best,
John Dillon
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