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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture The San Gemignano frescoes are worth a detour for anyone nearby. I saw them many years ago & loved them. Tom Izbickio Thomas Izbicki Research Services Librarian and Gifts-in-Kind Officer Eisenhower Library Johns Hopkins Baltimore, MD 21218 (410)516-7173 fax (410)516-8399 >>> Diana Wright <[log in to unmask]> 8/28/2006 6:51 PM >>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture A lovely selection of images, John. And one of my most favorite pictures of all: http://www.wga.hu/art/c/carpacci/3schiavo/1/1vision.jpg Augustine learning of the death of Jerome, by Carpaccio. DW John Dillon wrote: >medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > >On Sunday, August 27, 2006, at 10:37 pm, Paul Chandler wrote: > > > >>Thanks especially for drawing attention to the very fine >>online encyclopedia of philosophy from Stanford, which I had not known >>about. Mendelson's through and dense but clear and illuminating >>entry on Augustine is a marvel, a model of the brilliant encyclopedia >>entry. >> >> > >You're very welcome. The _Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy_ >http://plato.stanford.edu/index.html >combines scholarly excellence with a commitment both to keeping its >entries current and to making them available without charge on the Web >(which latter it hopes to achieve for the indefinite future by raising >a large endowment now). There are already entries on a fair number of >medieval thinkers, to say nothing of medievally pertinent ancients such >as Augustine. See the Table of Contents: >http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html#a > >And now for some visuals pertaining to Augustine. > >Remains of A.'s basilica at Hippo Regius: >http://tinyurl.com/sysyh > >A. in a wall painting (sixth-century) in the Lateran Palace, Rome: >http://tinyurl.com/h6zao > >A. in a mosaic (twelfth- or perhaps early thirteenth-century) in the >Cappella Palatina at Palermo: >http://www.augustinus.it/iconografia/immagini/augustinus_009.jpg > >The late thirteenth-century church of Sant'Agostino at San Gimignano >(SI) in Tuscany: >Aerial view: >http://www.wga.hu/art/g/gozzoli/4gimigna/0view.jpg >Note the location on a promontory on the edge of the old city. Naples' >contemporary Sant'Agostino alla Zecca is similarly situated. >Other views: >http://www.sangimignano.com/sgago1.jpg >http://www.hotelcisterna.it/img/santagostino2.jpg >http://www.hotelcisterna.it/img/santagostino.jpg > >Views of A.'s fourteenth-century tomb in the Basilica di San Pietro in >Ciel d'Oro at Pavia (PV) in Lombardy: >http://www.augustinus.it/iconografia/immagini/augustinus_204.jpg >http://web.tiscali.it/ghirardacci/bellandi/SAgostino_Arca.jpg >http://tinyurl.com/dmk3e >Website on the tomb: >http://tinyurl.com/lthau >Courtauld images: >http://tinyurl.com/kan8e >In 1842 an elbow from A.'s relics contained therein was brought from >Pavia to today's Annaba (medieval Bo^ne, ancient Hippo Regius) in >Tunisia for the building/consecration of A.'s modern basilica there. >Expandable views of the relic and of related modern artifacts, put on >display for an international conference in 2001, are here: >http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/algeria/relics.html > >Benozzo Gozzoli's fresco cycle (1464-65) of scenes from the life of A., >in San Gimignano's Chiesa di Sant'Agostino: >Context in the church: >http://tinyurl.com/hbrc8 >http://www.wga.hu/art/g/gozzoli/4gimigna/1view.jpg >Scheme of the cycle: >http://www.wga.hu/art/g/gozzoli/4gimigna/2scheme.jpg >Expandable views of the frescoes: >http://tinyurl.com/j6om4 > >Carlo Crivelli, Jerome and A. (1490), Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice: >http://www.bramarte.it/400/img/cri5.jpg >Note the demon, also present in the thirteenth-century miniature from >Pierpont Morgan Library, ms. M. 92, shown here: >http://www.princeton.edu/~heresy/ > >Best again, >John Dillon > >********************************************************************** >To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME >to: [log in to unmask] >To send a message to the list, address it to: >[log in to unmask] >To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion >to: [log in to unmask] >In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: >[log in to unmask] >For further information, visit our web site: >http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html > > > ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html