medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
A particularly Merry Christmas to you, John. This collection of images
is a treasure.
DW
John Dillon wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Today (24. December), the Vigil of the Nativity, is the feast day of:
>
> All the holy ancestors of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham, son of Adam, that is, the Fathers who were pleasing unto God, who were found just and who died according to the faith, and from whom Christ was born according to the flesh...
>
> That's my translation of the bulk of the first elogium for today in the new RM (2001), where previously one found an entry for the Vigil of the Nativity. Some might think that this elogium's use of exclusively masculine-gendered terminology to refer to those from whom Christ was born according to the flesh signals either an unusually weak grasp of human reproductive biology or else a studied relegation of women to a position of inferiority. Perhaps to counter such impressions, Roman Catholic dioceses in Italy and elsewhere follow tradition in calling this feast a Memorial of Saints Adam and Eve and of all the holy ancestors of Jesus Christ ('Santi Adamo e Eva e tutti i santi antenati di Gesù Cristo'), sometimes shortened on diocesan websites to just 'Adam and Eve'.
>
> With that in mind, herewith some late antique and medieval images of Adam and Eve:
>
> Paintings in Roman catacombs:
> http://tinyurl.com/yauj9v
> http://tinyurl.com/yexncz
> http://tinyurl.com/yhpnke
>
> Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus (fourth-century), A. and E. second from left, lower register:
> http://tinyurl.com/yaahak
> Detail:
> http://tinyurl.com/yb7ygx
>
> Sarcophagus of Lot (fourth-century), detail:
> http://www.aug.edu/augusta/iconography/catacombs/adam.html
>
> Molded brick (sixth-century), formerly at the church of St-Martin, Vertou (Loire-Atlantique), now in the Museo Dipartimentale Dobrée in Nantes:
> http://tinyurl.com/2c3nps
>
> Relief, Muiredach('s) Cross (tenth-century), St. Buithín’s Monastery, Monasterboice (Co. Louth):
> Lowest panel above the base (A. and E. at left, followed by Cain and Abel):
> http://jesuit.lmu.edu/albertson/crosses/53b.jpg
> Detail:
> http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/muiredach/eastfallabel.jpg
>
> Capital relief (tenth-century), San Zeno, Verona:
> http://www.thais.it/scultura/sch00449.htm
>
> Ivory panels (Byzantine; tenth- or eleventh-century), now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
> http://www.metmuseum.org/special/byzantinegalleries/10.L.htm
>
> Facade reliefs (Wiligelmus; 1099-1106), Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, Modena:
> http://www.valsesiascuole.it/crosior/1medioevo/chiesa59.jpg
> http://tinyurl.com/ym6y6w
> Details:
> http://tinyurl.com/yk6co5
> http://www.bramarte.it/romanico/img/scu1.jpg
> http://www.bramarte.it/romanico/img/scu2.jpg
>
> Manuscript illumination, St Albans Psalter (earlier twelfth-century), Hildesheim (Dombibliothek, MS St. Godehard I):
> http://tinyurl.com/2a7v65
>
> Facade reliefs (Maestro Niccolò; 1138), San Zeno, Verona (scroll down to "Creazione di Adamo"; 3 reliefs):
> http://www.arte-argomenti.org/saggi/nicolo.html
>
> Mosaic floor (1163-65), Cathedral of the Santissima Assunta, Otranto, details:
> http://www.masseriailfrantoio.it/foto/otranto_mosaico.jpg
> http://www.torresantostefano.it/FotOtr/pages/Mosaico.htm
>
> Capital reliefs (twelfth-century), Notre-Dame, Aubin (Aveyron):
> http://eglise.aubin.chez-alice.fr/EnglishV/Chapitos.htm
>
> Pulpit relief (ca. 1200-1220), Santa Maria Assunta, Bardone (Emilia):
> http://tinyurl.com/y3zxgu
>
> Trumeau relief (ca. 1210), west facade, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris:
> http://tinyurl.com/28or2u
> http://tinyurl.com/2gnex6
>
> Glass window (ca. 1210), Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres:
> http://tinyurl.com/y6x5h7
>
> Manuscript illumination (ca. 1220), Bible (Reims, Bibliothèque Municipale, ms. 34):
> http://tinyurl.com/2ggbqm
> http://tinyurl.com/yvy8mu
> http://tinyurl.com/2gat8s
> mise en page:
> http://tinyurl.com/yrenws
>
> Cupola mosaic (betw. 1270 and 1300), Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence:
> http://tinyurl.com/3y2kap
>
> Terracotta reliefs (1334-36; Andrea Pisano), formerly on the belltower of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, now in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo:
> http://tinyurl.com/2fnnhd
>
> Portal relief (after 1354), Münster, Freiburg im Breisgau:
> http://www.virtuelles-freiburg.de/img/Tourbilder/Eva2.jpg
>
> Glass windows (after 1367), St. Marienkirche, Frankfurt an der Oder, details
> Betrothal of Adam and Eve:
> http://tinyurl.com/yxomto
> Original Sin:
> http://tinyurl.com/y3o5kf
>
> Terracotta relief (attrib. to Donatello, 1407), now in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence:
> http://tinyurl.com/2g3fpw
> http://www.umilta.net/donatadameve1.jpg
>
> Fresco (Masaccio, ca. 1427), Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence:
> Before restoration:
> http://tinyurl.com/2keku7
> After restoration:
> http://tinyurl.com/2srr9x
>
> Panel paintings (Jan van Eyck, 1432), altarpiece, Cathedral of St. Bavo, Gand/Ghent, A. and E. at upper left and right, respectively:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/eyck/ghent/ghentopn.jpg
>
> Manuscript illuminations (Guiard des Moulins; fifteenth-century), France (in Paris, BN, ms. français 3):
> http://tinyurl.com/y22x5q
> http://tinyurl.com/y5cdw5
> More from the same illustrated Bible:
> http://collecties.meermanno.nl/handschriften/showmanu?id=100000
>
> Best,
> John Dillon
> (last year's post revised)
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