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Some later medieval portraits of Florence's San Zanobi in that city:

a) Maestro del Bigallo, panel from an altar frontal (ca. 1220-1230) depicting scenes from Z.'s life, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo:
http://www.thais.it/citta_italiane/firenze/index/mod/hi_res/00032.htm

b) Maestro del polittico della cappella Medici, John the Baptist between Sts. Z. and Reparata (ca. 1315-1335), Museo dell'Opera del Duomo:(http://tinyurl.com/2xuznp)
http://www.thais.it/citta_italiane/firenze/index/mod/hi_res/00036.htm
http://tinyurl.com/qywzupq

c) Bernardo Daddi (attrib.), BVM betw. Sts. Catherine of Alexandria and Z. (ca. 1335), Museo dell'Opera del Duomo:
http://www.thais.it/citta_italiane/firenze/index/mod/hi_res/00040.htm

d) Andrea di Cione (Andrea Orcagna; d. 1358), Z. with his deacons Sts. Eugenius and Crescentius, basilica cattedrale Santa Maria del Fiore:
http://tinyurl.com/28qkfr

e) Jacopo di Cione, Z. and a devotee (between 1380 and 1400), Museo dell'Opera del Duomo:
http://tinyurl.com/ompone

f) Z.'s window in the basilica cattedrale Santa Maria del Fiore (ca. 1430; restored, nineteenth and twentieth centuries):
http://www.icvbc.cnr.it/bivi/eng/schede/Toscana/Firenze/26cattedrale2.htm
A fact sheet on that window:
http://www.icvbc.cnr.it/bivi/eng/schede/Toscana/Firenze/26cattedrale.htm

g) Lorenzo Ghiberti, Z. (center right) raising a boy from the dead, front panel (ca. 1440) of his arca di San Zanobi in the basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore:
http://tinyurl.com/q8p765h

h) Beato Angelico, Sts. Z. and Dominic flanking the BVM (ca. 1437-46), Museo Nazionale di San Marco:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Fra_Angelico_041.jpg

i) Domenico Veneziano, Santa Lucia de' Magnoli Altarpiece (ca. 1445-1447), with Sts. Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Z., and Lucy flanking the BVM and Christ child, Galleria degli Uffizi:
http://tinyurl.com/ng23zvy

Best,
John Dillon

On 05/25/15, Matt Heintzelman wrote:
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> “Born of a Florentine noble family, he [Zenobius] was educated by his pagan parents. He came early under the influence of the holy bishop Theodore, was baptized by him, and succeeded, after much opposition, in bringing his father and mother to the Christianity.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobius_of_Florence)
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> Matt H.
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