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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture And for the fun of it, I put up a terrific painting of Savonarola as St. Peter Martyr which turns up in /Machiavelli in Hell /by Sebastian de Grazia. http://nauplion.net/savonarola.html DW Diana Wright wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > And the oldest extant image of St. Peter Martyr > > http://nauplion.net/petermartyr.html > > > A small -- nearly invisible unless you are on a ladder -- carving of > St P-M made in the 1260s for the church of the Dominican House of > Negroponte. > http://www.arts.cornell.edu/dendro/2004News/ADP2004.html [halfway > down the page] for dating of the construction. Pierre MacKay is > giving a paper on this at the upcoming medieval colloquium at Sewanee. > http://www2.sewanee.edu/communications/events?id=17758 > > > DW > > > > John Dillon wrote: >> 4) Peter Martyr (Peter of Verona; d. 1252). The Dominican P. was an >> effective preacher and a tireless inquisitor in northern Italy. He >> was ambushed and murdered by enemies who lodged a harvesting blade of >> some form in his skull. His cult was virtually immediate and he was >> canonized in 1253. P.'s tomb is in Milan's church of >> Sant'Eustorgio. Created in 1335-39 by Giovanni di Balduccio, it has >> moved around a bit but now is housed in the church's Cappella Portinari: >> http://www.santeustorgio.it/images/arcaportinari.jpg >> http://tinyurl.com/44689y >> http://tinyurl.com/bclkm >> A Thais page with expandable views of details from this monument: >> http://www.thais.it/scultura/giovbald.htm >> Detail (martyrdom of P. and a companion): >> http://tinyurl.com/3pu7zd >> http://tinyurl.com/4yadu6 >> Another view of Temperance (one of the tomb's caryatids): >> http://tinyurl.com/9glgo >> Many detail views here (also has views of a cycle of frescoes by >> Vincenzo Foppa dealing with P.'s miracles): >> http://tinyurl.com/4jt5cr >> >> Here's an expandable view of P. as represented (1490s) by Pedro >> Berruguete, from a dismembered retable formerly at Santo Tomás de >> Ávila (this panel now in the Prado): >> http://tinyurl.com/5cj52l >> Another portrait of P. (ca. 1494) by the same artist, also in the Prado: >> http://www.manyanet-alcobendas.org/cuadro15.jpg >> A no longer expandable view of that portrait, accompanied by >> English-language text: >> http://tinyurl.com/3t3wwt >> And here's an expandable view of an almost exactly contemporary >> depiction of him (at left, obviously) in a panel from Carlo >> Crivelli's altarpiece for the church of San Domenico at Camerino (MC) >> now at the Brera in Milan: >> http://tinyurl.com/m4ury >> >> Verona's largest "gothic" church is the formerly Dominican pile >> popularly known as Sant'Anastasia after the dedication of a >> predecessor on this site. Begun in the late thirteenth century, it >> has been dedicated to P. since 1307. Completed (except for the >> facade) in the fifteenth century, it was restored in 1878-81. A >> detailed, Italian-language account of it (and of the adjacent San >> Giorgetto) is here: >> http://tinyurl.com/7r63z >> English-language account with expandable views (mostly details): >> http://www.verona.com/index.cfm?Page=Guida§ion=luoghi&id=984 >> >> Some exterior views (incl. the fifteenth-century belltower): >> http://tinyurl.com/b6fxt >> http://www.froehlich.priv.at/galerie/verona04/original/stf316.html >> http://www.shakespeareinitaly.it/IMGP0109.JPG >> >> Front views, with San Giorgetto at left: >> http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:Santanastasiaverona.jpg >> http://www.shakespeareinitaly.it/IMGP0098.JPG >> >> Main portal (showing polychrome marbles): >> http://www.mestieriarte.it/images/images_1/marmo/opere/verona.jpg >> Main portal, sculptural details and faded frescoing: >> http://www.verona.com/Data/Photos/20010620/DSC00027.JPG >> http://www.verona.com/Data/Photos/20010620/DSC00026.JPG >> >> The portal was once adorned with fifteenth-century reliefs of scenes >> from P.'s life; two of these remain: >> http://www.aboutromania.com/verona9.html >> http://www.verona.com/Data/Photos/20010620/DSC00023.JPG >> http://www.verona.com/Data/Photos/20010620/DSC00024.JPG And here's a >> restored P. on the trumeau: >> http://www.verona.com/index.cfm?page=immagini_dettaglio&id_immagine=248 >> >> Some expandable interior views: >> http://tinyurl.com/m9q8b >> http://tinyurl.com/nd8s4 >> http://tinyurl.com/rfa2m >> http://tinyurl.com/mjr8x >> >> > > ********************************************************************** > 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