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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture On 02/03/12, I wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 3. February (including St. Blasius of Sebaste, in French and also in English commonly St. Blaise): > http://tinyurl.com/7m4m42f > Further to Blasius of Sebaste: > > Additions and corrections to that same post's selection of further images of St. Blasius of Sebaste will follow this weekend. As was foretold: herewith a revised set: Blasius' martyrdom as depicted in the late eleventh- or very early twelfth-century frescoes of the Chapelle des Moines at Berzé-la-Ville (Saône-et-Loire): http://www.wga.hu/art/zgothic/mural/11c1/14berze.jpg Blasius as depicted in the later twelfth-century mosaics of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo: http://tinyurl.com/7mkmnth(http://tinyurl.com/28mj2e" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/28mj2e Blasius (lower register, second from left) as depicted in the late twelfth-century Gospels of Henry the Lion (ca. 1188), now in the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel: Blasius as depicted in a late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century fresco in the santuario di Maria SS. Regina (a.k.a. Santa Maria d'Anglona) at Tursi (MT) in Basilicata: http://tinyurl.com/7dz2qax(http://tinyurl.com/yhkhges" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/yhkhges Blasius confronting the Roman governor persecuting him, as depicted in a thirteenth-century glass window from the area of Soissons and now in the Louvre: http://tinyurl.com/2lkkb6 Blasius as depicted in a thirteenth-century mosaic in the cupola di San Leonardo in Venice's basilica cattedrale di San Marco: Context (in this view Blasius is in the nine o'clock position): http://www.wga.hu/art/zgothic/mosaics/6sanmarc/2cusouth.jpg Blasius in the act of healing, as depicted in a mid-thirteenth-century gradual (ca. 1250-1260) for the Use of the abbey of Fontevrault (Limoges, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 63v): http://www.comune.porano.tr.it/it/san_biagio.html(http://tinyurl.com/23uod3" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/23uod3 Blasius as depicted (detail of a full-length portrait) in a thirteenth-century fresco in the chiesa di San Biagio at Porano (TR) in Umbria: http://tinyurl.com/yk9p76d An expandable view of Blasius' martyrdom as depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 32v): http://tinyurl.com/ya7fl2p Context in this church: http://tinyurl.com/yeosrlu Blasius (at center, betw. Sts. Hypatius [prob. H. of Gangra] and Eleutherius) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in the nave of the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija: http://tinyurl.com/ycpmxx5 Detail view (Blasius): http://tinyurl.com/yegy3jb Blasius (at left; at right, St. Babylas) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) of the altar area in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo: http://tinyurl.com/y89acds http://tinyurl.com/yzmwu82 Blasius (at far right, after St. Clement of Ohrid) as depicted in the later fourteenth-century frescoes (1360s and 1370s; restored in 1968-1970) in the church of St. Demetrius in Marko's Monastery at Markova Sušica (near Skopje) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: http://tinyurl.com/22tw37 http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/power_piety/ Scenes from Blasius' legend as depicted in a late fifteenth-century copy (1463) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language translation by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 51, fol. 58r): http://tinyurl.com/yjmvnju Blasius as depicted in the central panel of Martín de Soria's San Blas altarpiece (1464) in the iglesia de San Salvador at Luesia (Zaragoza): http://tinyurl.com/yk7rrbk The altarpiece as a whole: http://tinyurl.com/yj9m9rq Blasius' martyrdom as depicted on one of the altarpiece's predella panels: http://tinyurl.com/ye3b3qn Blasius as depicted in a detached later fifteenth-century fresco (betw. 1475 and 1500) from the refectory of the convento di San Biagio in Cesena (FC) in Emilia-Romagna, now in that city's Pinacoteca comunale: <a href=) Blasius (at left; at right, St. John the Baptist) as depicted by Hans Memling on a wing of his Passion (Greverade) Altarpiece of 1491 in the Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte in Lübeck: http://www.wga.hu/art/m/memling/5late/37nogr4.jpg 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