medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Thank you Genevra for your ever-wonderful images.
I hope George will forgive me for drawing the list's attention to a seasonal talk TONIGHT (7.30 UK time). Brother Guy Consalmagno, the pope's astronomer will be giving a talk for the Edinburgh Jesuit Centre on The Star of Bethlehem. I hope he will tell us how to see the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. We looked last night but there was too much hill and cloud in between.
https://edinburghjesuitcentre.org.uk/ for further details.
Happy Christmas all in these strange and unsettling times,
Rosemary
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Subject: [M-R] photos: Berlin Sculpture and Byzantine museum
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
apologies for cross-posting
Dear colleagues,
For those who celebrate the solstice as this season's biggest holiday, I have decided to mark today's occasion with new photos from Berlin. A double-sided C11 ivory panel http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/BerlinGenesisCrux.html
depicts multiple scenes from Genesis, including the Separation of Light from Darkness and the Creation of the Sun and Moon. Not explicitly the solstice, I know, but it was the most relevant image I could think of!
The other side of the panel shows the Crucifixion, Ecclesia, and Synagoga. I hope that I am not the only medievalist charmed by the ivory's unusual style.
That panel is in the Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, and I have now created a separate web page for that institution.
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/Skulpturensammlung.html
I have added to the gold-glass and stone sculpture that I posted earlier a number of ivories, including their C6 Christ/Virgin and Child diptych, a Carolingian panel with scenes from the life of Christ, and the famous Ottonian Doubting Thomas and Moses receiving the Law, plus an impossibly smug C15 St. Vitus in a kettle of boiling oil.
I won't have a chance to post more new material before Christmas, so in honor of that holiday I invite all to browse the Nativity page in my archive, http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/Nativity.html,
for images from the sixth to sixteenth centuries.
best to all,
Genevra
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