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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Please pardon the duplication of content. This post has the correct Subject line for filing in the archives of this list. Today (28. December) is the feast of: The Holy Innocents (ca. 3 BCE). We know about these sacrificial victims for Christ from Matthew 2: 16-18. Their feast in Rome seems to be no older than the later fourth century. Its stational church is San Paolo fuori le Mura, which latter is said to hold relics of them. Herewith views of a few medieval representations of the Massacre of the Innocents: Master of the Codex Egberti, manuscript illumination (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, Ms. 24), late tenth century: http://tinyurl.com/y3kgee Portal relief (1190-1200), St-Trophime (cathedral), Arles: http://tinyurl.com/y5ojjw Portal relief (ca. 1220-1236), Notre-Dame (cathedral), Amiens: http://angeamiens.ifrance.com/angeamiens/pages/cathedrale58.htm Manuscript illumination, German (ca. 1240), BL, Add. Ms. 17687 B: http://tinyurl.com/ychm79 Portal relief (ca. 1300), church of Santa Maria la Real, Olite, Navarra: http://www.arteguias.com/imagenes/stamariaolite4.jpg Giovanni Pisano, pulpit relief (1297-1301), San Zeno (cathedral), Pistoia: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/giorgio.vasari/pisano/pic12.htm idem, pulpit relief (1302-1303), Santa Maria Assunta (cathedral), Pisa: http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/italy/pisa/duomopulpit/0045.jpg Giotto di Bondone, fresco (1303-1305), Cappella degli Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua: http://www.christusrex.org/www1/giotto/SSC-strage-l.jpg Duccio di Buoninsegna, panel painting (1308-1311), Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena: http://tinyurl.com/ukbmh Giovanni da Bonino, glass window (1325-1334), Santa Maria Assunta (cathedral), Orvieto: http://www.icvbc.cnr.it/bivi/schede/Umbria/orvieto/1duomo15.htm Fresco (1407), Santa Maria Assunta (parish church), Terlano/Terlan (BZ) in the South Tirol: http://www.burgenseite.com/faschen/terlan_ritter_5.jpg Fra Angelico (attrib.), panel painting (1450-1453), formerly in the church of the Santissima Annunziata in Florence, now in that city's Museo Nazionale di San Marco: http://saints.bestlatin.net/images/gallery/innocenti_angelico.jpg Matteo di Giovanni (attrib.), mosaic panel (ca. 1481), floor of Santa Maria Assunta (cathedral), Siena: http://tinyurl.com/y8k8gf Antonio da Pandino (attrib.), glass window (ca. 1490), formerly in the cathedral of Milan (Santa Maria Nascente), now in the collection of the Château du Hac, Le Quiou, Brittany: http://www.icvbc.cnr.it/bivi/estero/1chateau_hac1.htm Best, 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